

And under Allow hybrid sleep, change Setting to OFF. Then in the Power Options – Advanced Settings, expand Sleep and Hibernate after.Ħ.
#WINDOWS 7 HYBRID SLEEP VS HIBERNATE WINDOWS#
Or an easier way is to press Windows Key + R to open Run and type control powercfg.cpl,1and click OK.Ĥ. Under the currently power plans, click Change plan settings and then click Change advanced power settings.ģ. If you enabled hibernation, but you only need to turn it OFF, follow these steps:ġ.Go to Start, type Power Options and press enter.Ģ. Now in the command prompt, you need to type the command line powercfg.exe /hibernate off, and press enter. This is pretty much the same process as we did before.ģ. Then what you’ll want to do is disable Hybrid Sleep by expanding Allow hybrid sleep and turning it Off. Now that Hibernate is enabled in Windows, you will notice the Hibernate option will be visible from the Shut down menu, and also you can now easily configure hibernation in the Power Options settings.

You are all done, to exit the command prompt, type exit and press enter. Now in the command prompt, you need to type the command line powercfg.exe /hibernate on, and press enter.Ĥ. From the result, right-click cmd and select Run as Administrator, and at the prompt window click Yes.ģ. When you put the computer into a hybrid sleep state, it writes out all its RAM to the hard drive (just like a hibernate), and then goes into a low power state that keeps RAM refreshed (just like a sleep). Go to Start and type cmd in the search box.Ģ. Som tidligere nævnt har bærbare computere som standard deaktiveret Hybrid Sleep. Hybrid søvn aktiveres automatisk på stationære pcer. To enable Hibernate follow these steps:ġ. Windows Hybrid Sleep giver også mulighed for en hurtig opstart i forhold til dvale, da den kan bruge RAM-data til at gendanne den forrige session. OK, now that you have a basic understanding of how hibernation works, let’s get to the actual procedures. Hibernation is a pretty useful feature, but one thing that you have to keep in mind is that when enabled, Windows will reserve the necessary space in the hard drive to save all the content in memory (RAM) to the file hiberfil.sys so you should expect to have a hiberfil.sys file as large as the amount of physical RAM memory installed in your computer, that nowadays it could be about 2, 4, 8 or even more Gigabytes. Windows does this by safely saving all the content in memory (RAM) to the hard drive, in a file called hiberfil.sys. Hibernation is a feature in Windows that enables you to turn off your computer and later on, resume all work and running programs to where you left off.
