Vista: Restore the Hibernate Option

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Tag Icon Tagged: Green computing Microsoft Vista  

If you have used the Disk Cleanup Utility and utilized it to clear the hibernation file, you may be surprised to find that the Hibernate option is no longer available. You can restore the hibernate option by following these instructions:


1. Click the Start button.

2. Select All Programs.

3. Select Accessories.

4. Right-click on Command Prompt.

5. Select Run as Administrator.

6. When the UAC prompt appears, click Continue.

7. Type powercfg /hibernate on and press Enter on your keyboard.

8. Close the Command Prompt window.

9. Reboot your PC.

 

39 Comments -


  1. paul jordan liao said on February 5, 2009

    thanks for a reliable post :)
    God Bless

  2. Nanie Vanie said on February 17, 2009

    Thanks, this was EXTREMELY helpful !!

  3. gene said on February 21, 2009

    What a joke…..I knew that wouldn’t work…Thanks for wasting my time.

  4. Paul said on March 2, 2009

    This information was very helpful. with most sites, the information is ambiguous,but this information was direct and to the point, so i thank you you for the explicit simplicity of your website. Praise to the information provider for this website.

  5. BA$H said on March 8, 2009

    very helpful thanks…

  6. Matt said on March 11, 2009

    Didn’t work. Got the following message:

    The following items are preventing hibernation on this system.
    The system could not create the hibernation file. The specific error code is 0xc000007f.

  7. NoahH said on April 30, 2009

    Wow, solved that problem for me in 1 min.
    HP Tech Support suggeted Full System Recovery.
    Good I did not follow their advice.

  8. aa said on June 10, 2009

    Great Post truly hhelpful. Took a while to find one on the Internet

  9. pedram said on June 25, 2009

    thank u thank u thank uuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

  10. naryshev said on June 27, 2009

    doesnt work still

  11. Anonymous said on July 13, 2009

    Thanks! very easy instructions and fixed my problem!

  12. Muhammad said on August 23, 2009

    You know what you are….. nothing short of a GENIUS

    I never understood why it kept telling me that my computer did not have the “privileges to do this/that”

    THANKS

  13. Anonymous said on September 1, 2009

    you made it seem easy thanks man, by the way it was jeje

  14. Anonymous said on September 25, 2009

    Perfectttttttt!!!!! Appreciate your help……

  15. Anonymous said on December 11, 2009

    awesome! ty soooo much
    damn sleep mode was drivin me batty!
    u rock!

  16. Anonymous said on January 3, 2010

    thanks for this wonderful info !!!!!

  17. Wilma Flinstone said on February 4, 2010

    Thank you – concise and very helpful.

    ***** (5 out of 5 stars)

  18. Anonymous said on April 24, 2010

    thank you it worked :)

  19. CSP said on May 24, 2010

    GOOD INFORMATION

  20. dav obi said on August 15, 2010

    Thanks a lot . this really works ! God Bless

  21. Stepher said on August 31, 2010

    Thank you for the fix!

  22. rick said on November 12, 2010

    I have to say, for those of you that can’t get this to work, it has to be another problem in your pc, It’s does work very easy. I was given the same command with a professional tech and just followed the same protocal and I’m back in Hibernate mode again, just make sure you right click ‘command prompt’, it won’t work if you don’t. thanks again

  23. Try said on November 17, 2010

    the command i had to use was “POWERCFG -H ON”
    otherwise it said “Invalid Parameters — try “/?” for help” using the syntax suggested here

  24. 123sdlfj said on November 19, 2010

    awesome!!! I got the Hibernate option back which I love!!!

  25. Victor said on January 9, 2011

    all i just say thank you……

  26. Priscilla A. said on January 31, 2011

    This puts the hibernate button back, but when I click hibernate, it goes actually does something more like restart. It doesn’t shut down properly or save open programs, and when it comes back on it goes into recovery mode first.

  27. Jaime Castro said on March 13, 2011

    thank you, i though i was done for it =p

  28. Kacey Kilerin said on April 1, 2011

    easily fixed the problem – thanks!

  29. Naa_ad said on April 7, 2011

    i followed the steps but my pc does not recognise the powercfg/ hibernate command, it says it is invalid

  30. Naa_ad said on April 7, 2011

    any further help?

  31. bridget said on April 26, 2011

    WOW. And all this time I’ve been looking in the most impossible places. Thank you guys SO MUCH. huge hug and kiss.

  32. Jyotirmay Intellisense said on June 3, 2011

    thanks brother.

  33. Chocola82 said on June 4, 2011

    no it works

  34. Aaawe said on June 22, 2011

    just try it and it is working fine without restarting the computer. try to write the words correctly it is
    ”
    powercfg /hibernate on”maybe you miss spill it or forget to write (on)

  35. Aaawe said on June 22, 2011

    thank you very much this is very helpful.

  36. Arechoh said on July 21, 2011

    God Bless U! It worked

  37. Terrence said on September 14, 2011

    Worked a treat.

    Thank you.

    CAUTION.

    At step 4 above be sure to RIGHT-CLICK.
    Otherwise you won’t take step 5.

  38. Cass said on October 13, 2011

    that’s of great help.. thks so much..

  39. StephanieC said on November 3, 2011

    FOR THOSE HAVING ISSUES:

    Make sure you right click “command prompt” and select “run as administrator”.

    I had to type:
    powercfg /hibernate on

    to make it work (the added “on” made all the difference).

    Thanks to the poster, this was very helpful!!

 

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