Hibernation option is very useful as compare to sleep option. sleep puts your open documents, files and folders in memory and takes small amount of power as well. On the other hand Hibernation saves the state of all open documents, files and folders in a file created on your hard disk and shut down the computer.

Enabling Hibernate option is bit different in Windows 7. To enable Hibernation or disable Hibernation in Windows 7 follow these steps.

Enable Hibernate Windows 7

Step-1

Press Windows Key + R and type cmd in the Run window

Step-2

Type the command given below in the command prompt and hit enter key

powercfg -h on

Step-3

Click Start button and See in the Shutdown menu the Hibernate option is available or not, If Hibernate option is not available you need to do few more steps

Step-4

Click on Start button and type Power Options in the search box. After this click on Power Options as shown in screenshot below

Step-5

Click on Change plan settings in-front of selected plan

Step-6

In the next Window click on Change advanced power settings

Step-7

In the next Window expand the Sleep menu and select Off from Allow hybrid sleep setting as shown in screenshot below.

Disable Hibernate Windows 7

When you disable hibernation then file hiberfil.sys on C:\ drive will also removed.

Step-1

Press Windows Key + R and type cmd in the Run window

Step-2

Type the command given below in the command prompt windows and hit enter key

powercfg -h off

see also:

• Auto Shut Down if unplugged (laptop)
• Speed up Shut Down Windows 7
• more tips and tricks Windows 7