Where's hibernate gone in Windows7?

[TykeMerc]

I have found that. But I always get:I have admin rights and tried the CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER thing with no luck.


And I still haven't found why it's not enabled by default? What's special or exotic about it?

In other news, I have managed to actually set my keyboard sleep kep to enter hibernation which is good, but I still want it on the shutdown menu where it belongs!

You need to open the Cmd box as Administrator, just because you're logged in with admin rights doesn't mean that apps run with admin elevation. It's a design feature.

[d000hg]

Got that to run successfully. Hibernate's still not listed in the shutdown menu. Will wait until I next do a full shutdown to re-check.

[VectraMan]

It worked for me (on 2 computers). You have to do both steps.

But I still can't get my laptop to hibernate after 2 hours on sleep, which is what it's set to do, and used to work under Vista. It's the one single tiny thing I've found where Vista was better.

I guess people with laptops use sleep, and people with desktops use neither. Hibernate probably just confuses the average user who doesn't understand the difference between that and sleep. Hiding it by default makes sense, but they could have made switching it on a bit more obvious.