Missing "hibernate" from Shutdown settings (of power options)

Sam of Simple Samples 5,541

I have seen Shut down, sleep, or hibernate your PC - Microsoft Support and other relevant articles.

For me, I do not have the option (checkbox) for hibernate.

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I have also seen win10 How to enable hibernation on dell PC when "powercfg.exe /hibernate on" does not work - Microsoft Q&A. I do not have hibernate in the plan settings as described there. I have a desktop computer and hibernate did work for it originally. What else can I try?

I cannot find something describing how to get it when it is not there.

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Sam of Simple Samples 5,541 Reputation points

2023-11-02T00:48:32.1866667+00:00
I finally found something suggesting to use powercfg /a and then I got an error that led me to windows - I have a weird powercfg /a response and no Hibernate anywhere-Surface Pro 3 - Super User.

Evidently the hibernation file was the problem. The command:

POWERCFG /HIBERNATE /TYPE FULL

fixed the problem.
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Sean Lohrisch 0 Reputation points

2024-07-30T06:11:06.3433333+00:00

This eventually worked for me. I used to have a Hibernate option until I added more RAM to my computer. The reason it stopped working was because I didn't have enough free hard drive space for Windows to create the Hibernate file (i.e. more RAM means a bigger hibernate file). Once I cleared up enough hard drive space on my C: drive, I was able to:

Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open Task Manager
Select File > Run new task
Type: cmd in the "Open" field
Check "Create this task with administrative privileges"
Press Enter

Once the cmd window is open
Type: powercfg /hibernate on
Then type: powercfg /h /type full (as per the above post).

Markus Johnson 0 Reputation points

2024-09-02T03:43:49.7666667+00:00

Thank you sam, what a scholar ! This was helpful for me im just learning cyber security and coding its like a new language thanks again
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