How to Enable or Disable Hibernate Option in Windows 7

Hibernation option is very useful as compared to sleep option. sleep puts your open documents, files, and folders in memory and takes a 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 a bit different in Windows 7. To enable Hibernation or disable Hibernation in Windows 7 follows 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 the enter key

powercfg -h on

Step-3

Click the 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 a few more steps

Step-4

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

Step-5

Click on Change plan settings in-front of the 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 the screenshot below.

Disable Hibernate Windows 7

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

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 the enter key

powercfg -h off