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How To: Enable Or Disable Hibernate Option In Windows 7

Posted January 19, 2009 – 6:21 pm in: Windows 7, Windows 7 Tweaks
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In Windows XP enabling Hibernate option was a very easy task, but we have to follow a different approach to do the same job in Vista and Windows 7.

If you are not aware of Hibernate feature, Hibernation is a power-saving state designed primarily for laptops. While sleep puts your work and settings in memory and draws a small amount of power, hibernation puts your open documents and programs on your hard disk and then turns off your computer. Of all the power-saving states in Windows, hibernation uses the least amount of power. On a laptop, use hibernation when you know that you won’t use your laptop for an extended period and won’t have an opportunity to charge the battery during that time.

Hibernate option in windows 7

So if you are really going to use this feature then you need to enable it by doing a simple procedure as mentioned below:

1. Open Command Prompt with Administrator rights. To open Command Prompt, type CMD in Start menu and then hit Ctrl + Shift + Enter to open the Command Prompt with Admin rights.

2. Next, type the below command and hit enter:

powercfg /hibernate on

Hibernate command

3. Type exit and hit enter to close the Command Prompt.

4. If you can’t see the Hibernate option in Start menu then do the following tasks:

A. Type Power Options in Start menu and hit enter.

B. In the left pane, open the link labeled “Change when the computer sleeps” and then open the link “Change advanced power settings”.

Hybrid sleep

C. Under the Advanced Sleep options, expand the Sleep tree and turn off Hybrid Sleep.

D. Now go back to Start menu to see the new Hibernate entry.

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32 Comments

  1. skylinerr34j
    Posted February 26, 2009 at 9:12 am | Permalink

    it restarts after hitting hibernate and resumes again after reboot

  2. Ram
    Posted March 1, 2009 at 11:56 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for the info. The second part was more useful. :)

  3. tweakwindows
    Posted March 5, 2009 at 7:54 am | Permalink

    Remove hibernate file by using in-built disk cleanup tool. And, then try again.

  4. mitch
    Posted April 9, 2009 at 8:00 am | Permalink

    I did this and hibernate appeared in the start menu. I clicked it and my system did hibernate – for a few minutes. Then it started again.

  5. tweakwindows
    Posted April 10, 2009 at 12:11 pm | Permalink

    Strange, it should work fine.

  6. brian
    Posted May 10, 2009 at 5:19 pm | Permalink

    Thank you, works great!

  7. alisina
    Posted June 28, 2009 at 1:12 pm | Permalink

    it’s good help thanck you so much.

  8. tk malah
    Posted July 1, 2009 at 1:05 am | Permalink

    Great job man for Win 7 the second option worked great i thought the old school way with vista -h on CMD would work but it didnt guess Win 7 wants u too be more user friendly CLICK CLICK no more typing what u want ! :)
    THANKS thou!

  9. Kashif Awan
    Posted July 5, 2009 at 9:50 pm | Permalink

    Very very thanks for this

    i was looking for this for some days ago

  10. Connor
    Posted July 23, 2009 at 1:24 am | Permalink

    Hibernate still does not appear in the start menu, even after typing “powercfg /hibernate on” into the command prompt and disabling hybrid sleep.

  11. airtonix
    Posted August 28, 2009 at 10:22 pm | Permalink

    computer doesn’t stay in hibernation.

    turns on again after a few seconds.

  12. Yordan Yordanov
    Posted August 29, 2009 at 3:18 pm | Permalink

    It works great, thanks!

  13. George
    Posted October 16, 2009 at 12:24 am | Permalink

    Great! I was trying to do this for some time now.

  14. hien
    Posted October 18, 2009 at 7:44 am | Permalink

    Thanks a lot, it works fine!

  15. mike d
    Posted October 24, 2009 at 9:48 pm | Permalink

    I have the RC candidate installed on a desktop and just upgraded a dell xps 1330 from vista to 7. I can’t get either to ever wake up from hibernation. Both worked great with VISTA hibernation. Other than that 7 is nice, certainly not great.

  16. Chris
    Posted November 7, 2009 at 7:27 am | Permalink

    Thanks for this. Even Windows 7 ‘Help and Support’ doesn’t cover this, which I was surprised by.

  17. Davion
    Posted November 10, 2009 at 8:42 am | Permalink

    Hi there,

    I tried to execute the powercfg command. However even after running the command as an Administrator, it gives me a message saying that I do not have the permission to make changes to the power configuration. I am having a 7000 build.
    Please advise.
    Regards,
    Davion.

  18. Commando07
    Posted November 12, 2009 at 9:04 pm | Permalink

    Thanks that was very helpful :)

  19. Johnson Yip
    Posted December 11, 2009 at 9:56 am | Permalink

    Thanks for the help. It is strange that 7 makes Hibernate option off on the start menu by default, and requires the user to turn off Hybird sleep, so hibernate is on.

  20. Lollo
    Posted December 11, 2009 at 3:22 pm | Permalink

    I really didn’t know that I have to disable hybrid sleep before use hibernation. Thanks a lot!

  21. Gabi Eskinazi
    Posted December 14, 2009 at 7:46 am | Permalink

    Man! CONGRATULATIONS!! Even B. Gates can’t explain it better. Suffering for months and a genius explanation. THANK YOU!

  22. pooya
    Posted December 24, 2009 at 11:32 pm | Permalink

    great,love you so much.i could’t find it anywhere else.

  23. Joel LaRocco
    Posted December 26, 2009 at 2:49 am | Permalink

    I am trying to set my Win 7 to hibernate, so if the mouse is moved it will not come out of hibernation.

    My Win Vista was pretty simple to set up but I am having trouble finding the solution.

    Thanks

  24. Rajesh
    Posted January 1, 2010 at 11:34 am | Permalink

    Thank you, that helped me.

  25. Photon
    Posted January 4, 2010 at 9:42 pm | Permalink

    Thank you so much for this guide. It helped me get it back! I needed it because I was going to move my computer upstairs, and I still had work on it to get done. I just can’t afford a shutdown, nor sleep is possible, for I’m pulling the plug (duh).

    Thanks again :D

  26. Duimengo
    Posted January 6, 2010 at 12:06 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for the guide, the seccond part was excellent… However appearently in my cmd, it’s called “powercfg -h on” instead of “powercfg /hibernate on”. Just a little notice. Thanks anyway

  27. Anon
    Posted February 8, 2010 at 7:04 pm | Permalink

    Thank you, very helpful post, I’ll be reading more of your stuff in future…!

  28. Derek C Johnstone
    Posted February 9, 2010 at 3:16 am | Permalink

    Great.
    I’ve been looking for this for ages
    Thanks

  29. vivekanand3435
    Posted February 11, 2010 at 12:02 am | Permalink

    very simple and perfect!!!! thanks a lot.

  30. Curtis
    Posted February 11, 2010 at 5:35 am | Permalink

    Thank you so much for this! After Windows 7 updated, I lost my hibernate feature. I’m so glad it’s back!

  31. adriana
    Posted March 10, 2010 at 2:42 am | Permalink

    great explanation!! THANKS! <3

  32. Will
    Posted March 13, 2010 at 11:39 pm | Permalink

    Thank yo so much….. stupid microsoft, why make it so hard.

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