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How To Enable Or Disable Hibernate Option In Windows 7

Last Updated on September 13, 2019 by admin 242 Comments

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In Windows XP, enabling Hibernate option was a straightforward task. One could navigate to Control Panel, Power Options and then Hibernate tab to enable or disable Hibernation feature. But in Windows 7,  we have to follow a different approach to do the same job.

What is the Hibernation feature in Windows?

If you are not aware of the Hibernate feature, Hibernation is a power-saving state designed primarily for laptops (works great on desktop computers as well). While sleep mode puts your work and settings in memory (RAM) 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

Enable or disable hibernation in Windows 7

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

Step 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.

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

powercfg /hibernate on

Hibernate command

Step 3: Type exit and hit Enter key to close the Command Prompt.

Step 4: If you can’t see the Hibernate option in the Start menu, then continue with 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 the Start menu to see the new Hibernate entry. That’s it!

How to enable Hibernate option in Windows 8, how to reduce Hibernation file size and create a keyboard shortcut to Hibernate option guide might also interest you.

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Comments

  1. It works! says

    September 15, 2020 at 8:56 pm

    The cmd option didnt work but the other one did tysm this actually does work and is useful because then your session gets restored

  2. TUSHAR GUPTA says

    June 30, 2020 at 9:02 pm

    HYBRID SLEEP OPTION NOT COMMING

  3. Brian says

    January 20, 2020 at 11:02 am

    Thank you. I’m glad I found a website that knows how to get it [email protected]

  4. Jei says

    August 18, 2019 at 11:08 am

    Excellent, thank you. Idk why hybrid sleep was on by default for my laptop.

  5. terry (criticatlarge) says

    July 17, 2019 at 3:22 am

    ditto and KUDOS!!
    thanks.

  6. Waqas says

    January 18, 2018 at 12:03 pm

    Works like a charm. Thanks

  7. Sarath Kumar says

    October 15, 2017 at 6:35 pm

    It really worked dude

  8. mike says

    October 4, 2017 at 5:05 pm

    VERY NICE!
    that thing with “Hybrid sleep” solved the problem. it’s not mentioned on other sites.
    Thanks!

  9. Scyht says

    August 18, 2017 at 12:36 am

    Thank it’s working!!!

  10. Sandi K says

    April 12, 2017 at 8:59 pm

    Wow – thanks so much. You made this so easy. I could have spent hours trying to figure this all out. Kudos to you!!

  11. Shilpa says

    March 3, 2017 at 10:25 pm

    Thanks alot!!
    In my pc, control+shift+enter didn’t allowed me to switch to with administrator rights. However when I choose to disallow the setting of hybrid sleep by settimg it off, then, it worked.
    I didn’t understand why?
    I’m the only user who is using this dekstop.
    Don’t how to change it.
    But still, second option was of great help for me.
    So, Thanks a billion ton!!

  12. Farhad says

    February 25, 2017 at 12:42 am

    Thanks a million it really worked :)

  13. Jesmis Joseph says

    August 29, 2015 at 10:53 pm

    Perfectly guided in short lines

  14. Mohammad Reza says

    August 13, 2015 at 4:45 pm

    Thanks a lot…
    Second method worked for me.

  15. lightwrx says

    August 12, 2015 at 5:27 am

    Third one of these I tried, this one actually worked and it didn’t have tons of blather I didn’t care about. 2 Bytes up! ;-)

  16. Kmanning says

    August 3, 2015 at 12:03 pm

    It was simple and worked. the second method worked for me. thanks

  17. sachin shah says

    June 24, 2015 at 10:51 am

    wow thank you
    resolve in sngle attempt

  18. jeff says

    June 1, 2015 at 3:23 am

    Just tried it, works superb, thanks very much

  19. DominionDavis says

    May 14, 2015 at 10:34 pm

    Wow!!! This Stuf works 100% Thank you, imagine no one has ever solved this head ache for me 2 years now. Lots of Love from Mombasa, Kenya.

  20. hossein says

    May 9, 2015 at 1:22 pm

    thanks a lot ….

  21. Peters Owolabi says

    April 21, 2015 at 9:02 pm

    The second step was very much useful.

    Thanks a lot for putting this here for the world.

  22. satchi says

    April 2, 2015 at 1:36 am

    thanks a lot ….

  23. Ronald says

    March 21, 2015 at 4:50 pm

    great. off the hybrid sleep did help me.Thanks.

  24. Brian Bee says

    February 1, 2015 at 7:26 pm

    I’m not sure why the Windows 7 OS to hibernate is so difficult compared to XP, but because of your instructions I was able to make the modifications within a minute.

  25. Kehal says

    January 18, 2015 at 5:30 pm

    Thank you great its work for me

  26. Daniel says

    January 17, 2015 at 7:03 pm

    Second option work thanks

  27. prasad says

    January 12, 2015 at 11:04 pm

    Thanks ! That worked.

  28. Peter says

    January 10, 2015 at 9:55 pm

    Thanks a lot man, second option worked on my pc :D

  29. Jose Martin says

    December 14, 2014 at 6:55 pm

    Thanks a lot, brother. I wasted an awful lot of time studying the Help and Support and downloading and installing a new driver for the video card as advised by the Help and Support, after the OS was reinstalled and I couldn’t find Hibernate in the Start Options thereafter. Your directions solved my problem in a second! Thank you SO very much.

  30. Grunge says

    December 12, 2014 at 3:37 am

    Thx worked perfectly :-)

  31. Showkat Muneer says

    November 20, 2014 at 10:05 pm

    It worked

    2nd option on my PC

    Thanks a lot………………..

  32. Ahmad Raza says

    November 18, 2014 at 9:51 pm

    I have Windows 7 Professional. It’s not both methods are not working on my system.

  33. kartik says

    November 11, 2014 at 6:36 pm

    Thank you very much

  34. Ahad Islam says

    November 5, 2014 at 10:32 am

    Nice Help. This instruction working successfully. Thanks for help.

  35. prateek agrawal says

    October 9, 2014 at 9:17 am

    thanks bro very very………….much………………………………………..

  36. abhi says

    October 6, 2014 at 8:04 pm

    Thanks a lot. You make it so easy for us.

  37. Deniz Emre says

    September 14, 2014 at 4:00 pm

    Thanks dude, it really works.

  38. Gustavo says

    September 10, 2014 at 7:25 pm

    Great!

  39. smruti says

    August 29, 2014 at 11:35 am

    Thanks…!

    Its helpful….
    But still I don’t log off my laptop using hibernate function in windows 7.

    So can you help me please?

  40. marin says

    August 18, 2014 at 4:40 am

    Didn’t work for me.

  41. sudhanshu says

    August 14, 2014 at 11:59 am

    thanks dude that blog helped :-)

  42. Krishna Baskey says

    July 20, 2014 at 10:06 pm

    thanks dude

  43. Dipesh says

    June 20, 2014 at 4:16 pm

    Thanx Buddy

  44. admin says

    June 3, 2014 at 12:16 pm

    @ Manel
    Do you have enough free space on your Windows 7 drive? The free space must be at least as much as the size of your RAM.

  45. manel says

    June 2, 2014 at 8:07 pm

    I tried this but it didn’t work for me. it says “Hibernation failed with the following error: The request is not supported. An internal system component has disabled hibernation.”

    What should i do?

  46. Zach says

    May 8, 2014 at 3:14 am

    Thanks a whole lot for posting this! Am decent with computers, but was having trouble with this. You’ve saved me, and a lot of my friends time, energy, and computer life. Really appreciate it!

  47. Baburam says

    May 6, 2014 at 12:12 pm

    Thanks for the help. it worked so easily.

  48. Zach says

    April 29, 2014 at 9:01 am

    Thanks a whole lot! Know a decent amount about computers, but Windows 7 was wearing me out when I was trying to work my way through the Hibernation “maze”.
    Really appreciate it!

  49. menny zhang says

    April 16, 2014 at 11:18 am

    thanks. I am just looking for help.

  50. HAMZA KANO says

    March 20, 2014 at 9:51 pm

    thank you so much. you really save my time.

  51. mehrani says

    February 18, 2014 at 1:59 am

    v thanks.it is good jab

  52. admin says

    January 27, 2014 at 11:57 am

    Glad to help you, all.

  53. Marco says

    January 24, 2014 at 9:16 am

    Thank you so much. I would have never figured this out!

  54. admin says

    January 13, 2014 at 9:24 am

    @ JC @ Kai
    Yes, enabling the Hibernate is quite a task in Windows 7. I am glad my guide helped you.

  55. JC says

    January 9, 2014 at 6:20 pm

    I couldn’t believe that it had to be this complicated – but it worked a treat – and really well laid out instructions and explanations – thanks a million

  56. Kai says

    January 9, 2014 at 5:40 pm

    thx so much

    you are so cool

    i like the 2nd method.it works instantly!

    god bless u=D

  57. Carlos says

    January 8, 2014 at 3:52 am

    Worket ! Thank you !!!

  58. Rajesh Pisode says

    January 3, 2014 at 2:19 pm

    Thanx…. It will help me a lot….

  59. Roberto says

    December 22, 2013 at 6:26 pm

    THANK YOU!!! Finally worked!

  60. Ron says

    November 8, 2013 at 9:15 pm

    never knew it was so easy to get the hibernation option to appear in the start menu… thanks!! Cheers! :)

  61. moshiour says

    October 27, 2013 at 2:47 am

    thanks a lot…much appricated…keep it up…short and powerful.

  62. Rex says

    October 22, 2013 at 10:39 am

    Awesome! Thanks Heaps!

  63. kaveh nj says

    October 1, 2013 at 1:20 pm

    really thanks!!! finally i could fix my biggest problem!!! :)

  64. Jairo says

    September 18, 2013 at 12:42 pm

    Very, very clear.

    Bookmarked for future reference.

  65. thana says

    September 2, 2013 at 2:35 pm

    thank u dear all

  66. Max says

    July 17, 2013 at 9:18 pm

    Thanks a lot for your clear explanation

  67. Bouncyboy says

    April 26, 2013 at 6:52 am

    I cant get admin rights. Even though im the only user on the pc.

  68. DFX says

    April 18, 2013 at 10:21 pm

    Tnx

  69. waseem usman says

    April 12, 2013 at 3:18 pm

    Thank u so much dude… its working

  70. kaku says

    March 29, 2013 at 12:39 am

    Thanks Mate…. This was usefull

  71. Matt says

    March 19, 2013 at 5:51 am

    Thanks so much! I don’t know why things like this should be so confusing.
    Glad for knowledgeable people like you!

  72. babar says

    March 18, 2013 at 12:09 pm

    thanks its working

  73. Rainier says

    March 8, 2013 at 2:23 pm

    This is what I’m looking for! Thanks mate!

  74. Anurag says

    February 27, 2013 at 7:56 pm

    it’s really good….
    working good…

  75. sarbesh says

    February 3, 2013 at 2:20 pm

    thanks for the guidance

  76. anand says

    January 10, 2013 at 10:31 am

    thanks.. it worked. :)

  77. John says

    January 3, 2013 at 3:29 pm

    Thanks! I just did this and I can now use Hibernate. :D

  78. azam says

    December 16, 2012 at 9:49 am

    Thanks alot…… :)

  79. Bilal says

    November 23, 2012 at 11:26 pm

    WoW Thanks! It works quite well for me.

  80. Daneel says

    November 22, 2012 at 10:08 pm

    Thanks! So solve the biggest problem in my life!

  81. John says

    November 15, 2012 at 9:26 pm

    I decided to check the power config first and turned off Hybrid sleep. This caused hibernation to work properly. Article was very helpful, Thanks.

  82. Darwin PC says

    November 7, 2012 at 2:57 am

    This is the best explanation that I found after trying many tutorials. Good job :)

  83. farid bekran says

    November 5, 2012 at 10:35 am

    hi! Thanks!

  84. bulksms says

    November 2, 2012 at 3:50 pm

    Thank u so much dude… its working :)

  85. edgerlink says

    October 19, 2012 at 10:38 am

    wau! that’s great finally the second option works best, I had hustled for location Hybrid sleep mode yet its not in my advance option for power in my laptop, THANKS MEN!

  86. zentex486 says

    October 13, 2012 at 4:00 am

    Thank you so much, it easily activated on my Win7 Home Premium.

  87. Zaharaddeen says

    September 19, 2012 at 1:08 am

    thank you very much man. it was very helpful.

  88. Avin Preraj says

    September 18, 2012 at 7:43 am

    ThaNX Alot 4 ur heLP

  89. nasrin says

    September 13, 2012 at 1:19 am

    that was very useful, 100% works!
    thank you very much

  90. ner0 says

    August 18, 2012 at 3:54 am

    Fun fact:
    In my Windows 7 Ultimate (x64), foreign language (PT-PT), the setting “Allow hybrid sleep” is only enabled when set to “Off” and disabled when set to “On”, at least the option is only visible when hybrid mode is disabled. Meaning that after running “powercfg /hibernate on”, the hybrid sleep option is set to “On” by default yet “Hibernate is nowhere to be seen until I set hybrid sleep to “Off”.

  91. Raj says

    August 13, 2012 at 9:40 am

    Its real great ist working.thanks dud

  92. Melody says

    August 11, 2012 at 11:09 am

    Thank you, thank you, thank you! <3

  93. cena says

    August 9, 2012 at 5:23 pm

    thanx that was great.
    but why the command prompt commands shown above does not work on my computer?

  94. Renan says

    July 22, 2012 at 3:30 am

    It works. Thank you.

  95. Stieve says

    July 18, 2012 at 3:28 am

    Thank you. Works great.

  96. mohsen says

    July 4, 2012 at 4:14 am

    thank you so much

  97. mateka00 says

    July 3, 2012 at 12:11 am

    For those, whose computer restarts after hibernating:
    1. in cmd(run as admin): powercfg -devicequery wake_armed
    2. this command shows you, which devices are enabled to wake your machine up.
    3. After it just check these devices in the device manager and click right button->properties->power management->allow this device to wake the computer->disable it…
    And I also suggest you this article: http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/solved-windows-7-pro-x64-sp1-hibernate-restarts-system-devcon-does-not-work.106718/
    Good luck!

  98. Afras Khan says

    June 15, 2012 at 9:36 pm

    Thank You So Much…:D

  99. Amelie says

    June 5, 2012 at 9:50 am

    It really helps. Thank you!

  100. thesuperryan says

    May 28, 2012 at 10:40 am

    THANKS FOR THIS.
    A VERY BIG HELP :D

  101. justaperson says

    May 27, 2012 at 10:20 pm

    Thank u so much!!!
    It really wored!!
    Your forum was one of the rare ones that gives the accurate info to the point

  102. Rui says

    May 1, 2012 at 6:04 am

    Thank you so much!

  103. ali rasouli says

    April 21, 2012 at 12:18 am

    Thank you!

  104. muthu says

    April 13, 2012 at 3:23 am

    really useful info
    thanks a lot

  105. souri says

    April 4, 2012 at 7:45 pm

    Thank You very much

  106. ash says

    March 16, 2012 at 1:28 pm

    I cannot disable my hybrid sleep. I have no idea why ): please assist

  107. mariana says

    March 16, 2012 at 1:52 am

    Thank you very much!

  108. Hi says

    March 7, 2012 at 4:41 pm

    Great WOK Good Gooddd

  109. bobby says

    February 21, 2012 at 11:42 am

    Thanks so much for sharing this useful information…

    I have been wondering why I couldn’t see the hibernate entry on the start menu.

  110. Jorge Antunes says

    February 10, 2012 at 3:04 am

    thanks, like the shortcut

  111. James says

    January 27, 2012 at 8:25 pm

    Works very well. Thanks.

  112. Babu says

    January 18, 2012 at 10:11 pm

    Thanks a lot

  113. James says

    January 16, 2012 at 8:59 pm

    Great and as people have said, good explanation. And my thanks go to you for you for your time in preparing it for others to use.
    If I could add one thing, between step C and D, in order to see the changes you’ll need to press the APPLY button at the bottom. I say this, since I was checking the Start Menu and nothing changed, then I saw the APPLY button and voila! There it was.
    So thanks again, and preciate your efforts.

  114. Joe says

    January 16, 2012 at 8:39 am

    Why not just use Hybrid Sleep. It’s better.

  115. Jack says

    January 13, 2012 at 1:33 am

    Just dropped a comment to say thank you very much. I wonder why it was disabled in the first place though.

  116. Kamal Prasad says

    January 11, 2012 at 11:40 pm

    Thanks!!!

  117. Zia says

    January 11, 2012 at 7:23 pm

    Works like a charm, thanks!

  118. Muzza says

    January 10, 2012 at 3:09 am

    Spot on… Well written article

  119. Unsatisfied says

    January 7, 2012 at 9:32 pm

    Won’t work.

  120. CHETANYA says

    September 25, 2011 at 1:34 pm

    I went through many pages offering many weird solutions……none solved my problem b4 hittn ths page….thx alot

  121. ahmad faisal noory says

    September 19, 2011 at 11:20 am

    it was awesome was very nice it helped me too much thanks

  122. Mohamed says

    September 15, 2011 at 12:12 pm

    Thanks alot

  123. Ali says

    September 14, 2011 at 8:49 pm

    It was helpful,thanks.

  124. Stefos says

    September 13, 2011 at 11:44 am

    thanks!! it worked!

  125. c.h. says

    September 10, 2011 at 6:18 am

    Thanks alot!

  126. Maksud says

    September 6, 2011 at 12:12 pm

    Thanks, it worked like a charm!!!!!

  127. ken says

    September 5, 2011 at 2:39 pm

    thank you sooooo much. It really worked for me and i think the second part is more useful.

  128. Dylan S. says

    September 3, 2011 at 12:42 pm

    I read this a few months ago, and after a frustrating trip through the instructions, couldn’t get it to work.
    I don’t know where I went wrong, perhaps it was that I was just getting used to Windows 7… but I missed that last part, with the Hybrid Sleep option.
    Thankfully I researched this page again, and found exactly what I needed!
    Thank you for this post!

  129. dhaishad says

    August 26, 2011 at 9:52 am

    atlas…i found it here…thank you very much!!!!ur such a big help….

  130. Minh Nguyen says

    August 2, 2011 at 1:06 am

    great !
    It’s helpful

  131. harshav says

    July 30, 2011 at 9:16 pm

    it really works…..my hibernate option has started appearing now……….thans for the help

  132. ofosu michael says

    July 6, 2011 at 8:54 pm

    tell me how to hibernate,run program and automatically shutdown

  133. Michael says

    June 26, 2011 at 9:38 pm

    thanks a LOT!!! The second option was the one that worked for me. God Bless you.

  134. bram says

    June 23, 2011 at 8:47 am

    thanks

  135. mashruf says

    June 12, 2011 at 4:21 pm

    Thanks! It WORKED :D

  136. Leorick says

    June 4, 2011 at 4:29 pm

    Tested and verified working with Win7 Enterprise 64bit also. Thanks.

  137. Gayan says

    May 23, 2011 at 4:16 pm

    superb great post i was looking for the way to enable hibernate feature and was really strucked but this post helped me to solve my problem thanks again.

  138. Manish Yadav says

    May 21, 2011 at 12:54 pm

    Thanks it work Successfull

  139. Yaarub says

    May 12, 2011 at 8:43 pm

    THANK YOU !!!! Shokraaan :D

  140. drWoo says

    May 9, 2011 at 1:50 pm

    Very thanks for this! It worked on my Win 7 pro 64 upgraded from Vista Business 64.

  141. nZeus says

    May 1, 2011 at 8:42 pm

    Thanks!

  142. [email protected] says

    April 14, 2011 at 2:35 am

    THANK YOU! FINALLY figured it out

  143. Adrian says

    April 12, 2011 at 2:17 pm

    Thank you! This solved my problem!

  144. Josh says

    April 5, 2011 at 4:51 pm

    Thank you! Simple and straight forward!

  145. Rajiv says

    April 4, 2011 at 4:45 pm

    thanks.. it works fine!!!

  146. Daniel says

    April 2, 2011 at 2:45 pm

    Thanks for your tip. Until I visited this page, I didn’t even realize the Hibernate options wasn’t present in my Start Menu and the Desktop Alt-F4 window. Before I just couldn’t get my system to go into Hibernate mode. I haven’t tested it yet. But I suspect it will work now.

  147. Mike Smith says

    March 23, 2011 at 9:03 am

    Thanks a lot, I really appreciate your help, IT WORKED ON VISTA x64! LOVE U!

  148. Kaizy says

    March 20, 2011 at 4:27 pm

    yah…. thnkzz u so much itzz relly helpful for me ….

  149. adf says

    March 13, 2011 at 2:25 pm

    Thank u! Solved the problem!

  150. abd says

    February 20, 2011 at 6:03 pm

    thanks it worked fine :-)

  151. Harish says

    February 18, 2011 at 7:59 pm

    Thank u so much buddy. it works

  152. Aadhaar says

    February 12, 2011 at 2:59 am

    Thank you so much… It worked for me…

  153. marius says

    February 6, 2011 at 6:38 pm

    thanks :D

  154. SAJ says

    January 30, 2011 at 9:03 am

    Thank You…!

  155. Saransh says

    January 17, 2011 at 4:30 pm

    Thanks………….dude…:))))))))

  156. jai says

    January 9, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    thanx its workin…..second part is useful

  157. Sourav Agrawal says

    December 31, 2010 at 8:03 pm

    thanx it really works…
    thanxx..

  158. Brian says

    December 27, 2010 at 4:01 pm

    I have known about this methord of turning on Hibernation for some time, but I have not been able to find a way to keep the machine turned on for more than 5 seconds ofter trying to hibernate. If you can come up with a way to do that I would be a happy man..

  159. Uday says

    December 20, 2010 at 9:46 am

    Thanks! Was a simple trick, done the job I wanted.

  160. Jules says

    December 18, 2010 at 8:42 am

    Thanks so much! It really helped! Especially since after having to reinstall windows 7 I forgot how I even enabled hibernate ;P

  161. Chris says

    December 15, 2010 at 12:46 pm

    I followed a different follow-through and it wasn’t specific enough. I didn’t know about the administrator rights thing.

    This one helped! THANKS!

  162. Pakistan says

    December 15, 2010 at 3:00 am

    thanks …its works… :)

  163. karthi says

    December 9, 2010 at 8:40 pm

    thank u …the second method is very easy…

  164. Rashi says

    December 4, 2010 at 1:22 pm

    Wow. That really worked. Thanks a ton!

  165. DEEPS says

    November 30, 2010 at 2:35 pm

    Very USeful Thanks a lot

  166. DEEPS says

    November 30, 2010 at 2:34 pm

    Very USeful Thanks

  167. karthi says

    November 27, 2010 at 12:28 pm

    thank u so much it was ver helpful to me

  168. Zahid says

    November 25, 2010 at 4:58 pm

    Thanks a lot..

  169. MZ says

    November 23, 2010 at 9:48 pm

    Thanks a bunch!

  170. MK says

    November 19, 2010 at 7:24 pm

    Thanks, I’ve been searching for this info all over the web .. they all have the first part only, which clearly did not work for me. Thanks again :)

  171. atefsaleh says

    November 14, 2010 at 7:25 am

    Thanks a lot, helped a lot

  172. Sandeep says

    November 11, 2010 at 9:33 pm

    Thanks dude

  173. Moby says

    November 1, 2010 at 9:49 pm

    Thanks a million!! It worked on my home assembled Asus motherboard computer!!

  174. Pankaj says

    October 18, 2010 at 4:08 pm

    Nice tricks and it worked on my Windows 7!
    Thanks for sharing man…
    :)

  175. Ali says

    October 7, 2010 at 2:50 pm

    Thank you very very much, It worked!

  176. Nuwan says

    October 6, 2010 at 2:00 pm

    Thanks great,
    It worked!

  177. Norry Zinger says

    October 3, 2010 at 8:59 pm

    MY daughter’s laptop switched itself off after initiating step two above and i cannot get it to switch on again. Any suggestions what to try please??

  178. Krans says

    October 2, 2010 at 10:06 pm

    Thank You for your info. Itz really helpful!!!

  179. Anthony says

    September 12, 2010 at 5:31 am

    thank you very much! it was very understanding!

  180. Angel says

    September 6, 2010 at 8:11 am

    For those who still after going through with these steps dont get to see the hibernation option, try changing your computer power option to Balanced, since thats the main profile you change. Or change all of the 3 profiles in the advanced power settings to enable hibernation on the 3 power consumption profiles.

  181. rahultechie says

    September 4, 2010 at 11:52 pm

    Thanks :)

  182. Daniel says

    September 4, 2010 at 3:52 pm

    Thanks guys it worked just fine

  183. Drew says

    September 4, 2010 at 2:30 pm

    followed cmd instructions. Got back: The request is not supported.The following items are preventing hibernation on this system. There are one or more legacy drivers installed: Aten1pt
    I had hibernation and sleep at first but some update turned them off.

  184. Saidur Rahman says

    September 2, 2010 at 7:29 pm

    Hi
    Its really helpful document. Thanks a lot. I expect more help from you next time.

    –Rana

  185. Mark says

    August 31, 2010 at 11:34 am

    Thank you so much! this really worked. It’s kind of lame how windows is so hard to use lol. Have to look up these silly instructions to get what we want!

  186. vivek says

    August 25, 2010 at 9:40 am

    my laptop gets hibernate after hitting hibernate but when i power on then it doesn’t resumes then when i press ctrl+alt+del then it resumes. pls give me a solution………….

  187. rain says

    August 19, 2010 at 4:24 pm

    thank you s very much!!!

  188. lantern says

    August 17, 2010 at 8:23 pm

    thankyou
    so helpful
    I was looking for the way to do that

  189. admin says

    August 9, 2010 at 9:32 am

    @ Sid

    You need to have the admin rights to perform this task. So make sure that you have opened Command Prompt as Administrator.

  190. Msique says

    August 7, 2010 at 8:22 pm

    Hey man thnx!!!!!!!!!

  191. sid says

    August 6, 2010 at 7:22 pm

    when i tried the above procedure..my pc says..u don’t hav the permission to enable or disable hibernate option

  192. Anjan says

    August 6, 2010 at 7:01 pm

    Thanks for this good post. it helps me

  193. rudra pradeepta says

    July 9, 2010 at 8:52 am

    Thanks for the post, it works for me.. cheers.

  194. thamz says

    July 6, 2010 at 9:41 am

    Thanks, works like magic!

  195. Crue Lick says

    July 6, 2010 at 8:57 am

    Worked great, thanks!

  196. Vasu says

    July 5, 2010 at 9:52 pm

    It worked the second option was unknown to me.. thanks a lot for that

  197. ?emseddin says

    June 29, 2010 at 8:18 pm

    Thanks you very much!

  198. George says

    June 28, 2010 at 12:08 am

    thanks. worked great!

  199. Gene says

    June 15, 2010 at 4:18 pm

    Windows 7

    My wife’s computer would wake up from hibernation often. After a while I noticed when the telephone rang, the computer would wake up! Our son, the computer expert, adjusted the bios accordingly and it solved the problem.

  200. admin says

    June 1, 2010 at 10:02 pm

    @Imran
    Please make sure that you are opening the Command Prompt with administrator rights.

  201. Imran says

    June 1, 2010 at 8:15 pm

    when i type powercfg /hibernate on it says im not allowed to do it

  202. Mohsen says

    May 2, 2010 at 5:25 am

    Great! It worked… Thanks a lot!

  203. Prashant Mathur says

    April 20, 2010 at 1:48 am

    Use Ctrl(right)+Shift(right)+Enter .. then u’ll get the administrative rights …

  204. wilfred says

    April 18, 2010 at 5:29 pm

    windows 7 64bit same problem of dissapearing hibernate option. your trick works here as well.
    well hidden option :-(
    run cmd in admin mode: put shortcut on desktop and rightclick-properties-shortcut-advanced-‘run as admin’

  205. Avid says

    April 15, 2010 at 9:24 am

    Thanks a tonne!
    Simple and easy to understand.
    Did this in a minute and a half….
    Great!

  206. Sean says

    March 31, 2010 at 7:30 am

    Ctrl + Shift + Enter does nothing. I still don’t have the rights to switch on hibernation, despite the fact that mine is the sole account on the computer and therefore must have administrative rights.

  207. Charnita Fance says

    March 30, 2010 at 7:09 am

    Thanks so much! Really appreciate this :)

  208. AG says

    March 24, 2010 at 2:33 pm

    Ah… great buddy, thank u veryyyyyyyyy muchhhhhhhhhh…

  209. chiru says

    March 22, 2010 at 12:15 am

    Yes the much needed “Hibernate” feature works superb now on my pc, and very nice explanations. For eight months I have been using W 7 RC candidate, w/o hibernate feature. The standby feature makes the pc start even with slightest mouse movement, or accidental keybrd press. Thanks for the post.

  210. David Braganza says

    March 21, 2010 at 11:17 pm

    My God, maybe Microsoft should contract you out for their technical support. They could not even tell me how to enable hibernation in windows 7 64. They led me throught the cmd entry, but your site took me further to correct the issue. Thank you sooo much!

  211. Will says

    March 13, 2010 at 11:39 pm

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

  212. adriana says

    March 10, 2010 at 2:42 am

    great explanation!! THANKS! <3

  213. Curtis says

    February 11, 2010 at 5:35 am

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

  214. vivekanand3435 says

    February 11, 2010 at 12:02 am

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

  215. Derek C Johnstone says

    February 9, 2010 at 3:16 am

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

  216. Anon says

    February 8, 2010 at 7:04 pm

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

  217. Duimengo says

    January 6, 2010 at 12:06 pm

    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

  218. Photon says

    January 4, 2010 at 9:42 pm

    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

  219. Rajesh says

    January 1, 2010 at 11:34 am

    Thank you, that helped me.

  220. Joel LaRocco says

    December 26, 2009 at 2:49 am

    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

  221. pooya says

    December 24, 2009 at 11:32 pm

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

  222. Gabi Eskinazi says

    December 14, 2009 at 7:46 am

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

  223. Lollo says

    December 11, 2009 at 3:22 pm

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

  224. Johnson Yip says

    December 11, 2009 at 9:56 am

    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.

  225. Commando07 says

    November 12, 2009 at 9:04 pm

    Thanks that was very helpful :)

  226. Davion says

    November 10, 2009 at 8:42 am

    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.

  227. Chris says

    November 7, 2009 at 7:27 am

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

  228. mike d says

    October 24, 2009 at 9:48 pm

    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.

  229. hien says

    October 18, 2009 at 7:44 am

    Thanks a lot, it works fine!

  230. George says

    October 16, 2009 at 12:24 am

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

  231. Yordan Yordanov says

    August 29, 2009 at 3:18 pm

    It works great, thanks!

  232. airtonix says

    August 28, 2009 at 10:22 pm

    computer doesn’t stay in hibernation.

    turns on again after a few seconds.

  233. Connor says

    July 23, 2009 at 1:24 am

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

  234. Kashif Awan says

    July 5, 2009 at 9:50 pm

    Very very thanks for this

    i was looking for this for some days ago

  235. tk malah says

    July 1, 2009 at 1:05 am

    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!

  236. alisina says

    June 28, 2009 at 1:12 pm

    it’s good help thanck you so much.

  237. brian says

    May 10, 2009 at 5:19 pm

    Thank you, works great!

  238. admin says

    April 10, 2009 at 12:11 pm

    Strange, it should work fine.

  239. mitch says

    April 9, 2009 at 8:00 am

    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.

  240. admin says

    March 5, 2009 at 7:54 am

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

  241. Ram says

    March 1, 2009 at 11:56 pm

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

  242. skylinerr34j says

    February 26, 2009 at 9:12 am

    it restarts after hitting hibernate and resumes again after reboot

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