XP: Disable or Enable Hibernation

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Hibernation does not make sense for a lot of desktop systems but it is perfect for systems such as notebooks. Here is how to turn hibernation on or off in your XP system.


Enable or Disable Hibernation:

1. Click Control Panel

2. Click Power Options

3. Select the Hibernate tab

4. Uncheck Enable Hibernation box to disable
(or check to enable)

5. Click OK

 

17 Comments -


  1. Anonymous said on September 18, 2009

    My PC goes to hibernation right after starup. I must disable it in safe mode or by the Command prompt, but body can tell me how???

  2. advice said on September 26, 2009

    try doing it in safe mode with command prompt enabled
    and it still makes you reboot i would insert your disc to repair files. you might have
    something more going on besides that issue

  3. LJ Core said on October 31, 2009

    Hi! Well, my PC shutts down suddenly. Can be the hibernate option one of the reasons?…if so, how should i let the hibernation: enable or disable???…thanx…

  4. WRJ said on November 30, 2009

    “powercfg.exe /H OFF” is the commandline option

  5. schilcote said on December 21, 2009

    Under what conditions does your PC shut down suddenly? I remember one of my laptops would simply power off with no warning if the CPU tempature went above 100 degrees celcius.

  6. LJ Core said on December 22, 2009

    Well, I dont think it shutts down cause of overheat. I think the power supply is the problem and can’t handle the data information on my pc.
    My PC:
    xp pro sp3 – IE8 – Celeron CPU 2.53GHz – video card: nvidia geforce4 mx 440 – type of my power supply: SIMPOWER Power supply SP-300, 400W , Pentium 4.
    So…is for the cause of my power supply? should i change it or fix it or smth? thanx

  7. Anonymous said on February 20, 2010

    i want it through command prompt
    every 1 knows it through control panel

  8. Anonymous said on February 27, 2010

    i can not see the Hibernate option in my Desktop PC. There are only three option: 1. Stand By, 2. Shut Down, 3. Restart.
    Can onyone please help me to bring the Hibernate option in Turn Off Computer menu?

  9. Dan said on March 16, 2010

    Hold down the shift key.

  10. Shyam said on May 18, 2010

    Thnx

  11. guest said on July 1, 2010

    Hibernation DOES make sense on desktop PCs. An OS can restore itself from hibernation much faster than it can initialize itself in a fresh boot.

  12. Sendyourspam said on October 6, 2010

    Yes, it’s good when you suddenly decide to run to the shop or go out and want your job to be in the state you left it at… it saves a lot of power and actually it protects you work from power outages.
    You can also use it to complement a UPS, so that you are fine of with a cheaper one, cause no need to save work or have a battery capacity to keep your office components up untill you finish or save a ton of parallel tasks. And even with a big expensive UPS you can still save power for emergency tasks during the outage.

    But after finishing work I wouldn’t consider it a shutdown-replacement., too much of clutter, and eg. win can’t run too long without a shutdown, at least not at fresh-boot quality.
    Anyways what do you need those extra 2-6 seconds for?
    However, if you do need that fast bootups, partition your drive wisely(if your drive capacity allows, use only the first LESS THAN 10 percent of the total for your system partition) and take measures like moving your docs, vids etc. folders to another partition and create a small partition at the end of the disk for installs, backups and sort of stuff. Set a static size (min.value=max.value) pagefile a few megs above the recommended value(depending on the hunger of your programs you might even double it) – this will avoid pagefile fragmentation.
    Defragment your drive -online and offline and if customizable, just move your boot files to the end of the partition with a huge gap set up behind other data to make sure-it’s a continuous read of small data, so you will not lose speed on bootup, but gain a bit on random reads here-and-there. Also put the directory somewhere in the middle. to have good average access to it all the time on.
    And disable bootup loading of unnecessary or seldom used services, updaters, phone suites, office launchers, pdf reader quick launchers and any clutter of this kind.

  13. Foxman2010uf said on January 3, 2011

    i have problem in power option menu i cannot find the option Hibernate is their aproblem in my win xp version

  14. Nikhu Shukla said on March 7, 2011

    There is not any option of Hibernate in Power Option. I am using Win XP SP2. How to add it?

  15. Rb2750 said on April 11, 2011

    Thank you sooooo much dan that has been so much help to me ive not found that out in eight years thanks :) :) :) :)

  16. Anoopkumar said on April 21, 2011

    Press Shiftkey after you activate the hibernation option when you shutdown the system.
    The Standby will change to Hibernation wile you press Shiftkey

  17. Martingashion said on August 11, 2011

    I have been given a second Medion Laptop. It is one month older than my first (6 years). My second one was virtually defunct so I have reformated and started again from a restore disk. It is now fine EXCEPT that in power management there is no standby/hibernate tab.

    I badly want it to be able to hibernate. Is this option controlled in Software or in the BIOS or where?

    Any suggestions?

    Martin

 

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