hibernation mode

confused.. · 26 Oct 2007 at 13:01

i am running vista home premium and want to know how to disable hibernate mode so if i press the sleep button on the keyboard nothing happens, can you help??

confused.. · 26 Oct 2007 at 21:27

anyone ??

Energize · 26 Oct 2007 at 22:13

Power settings in the control panel.

Dappy · 26 Oct 2007 at 22:26

You can no longer disable hibernation through the Power control panel.

You will need to right click on "Command Prompt" in the Start Menu and select "Run As Administrator" then run the following command: powercfg -h off

(edit: typo)

Energize · 26 Oct 2007 at 22:37

I thought vista was supposed to be easier to use? Having to disable hibernation through the command prompt? Good lord.

confused.. · 28 Oct 2007 at 18:36

thnx ppl

swinnie · 28 Oct 2007 at 18:43

Energize said:
I thought vista was supposed to be easier to use? Having to disable hibernation through the command prompt? Good lord.

My exact thoughts!!

csmager · 28 Oct 2007 at 18:52

Is that different to just changing 'Hibernate after:' to 'never' in power options?

Neither this nor the command prompt actually solves your problem - you don't want to disable hibernation, you want to stop the sleep button doing anything.

Click 'Choose what the power buttons do' in Power Options and change the sleep button to do nothing.

zetec452 · 28 Oct 2007 at 18:57

You can also delete the hibernation cache on the disk clean up facility. That apparently will kill hibernation.

<Dubz> · 2 Nov 2007 at 18:04

JonRohan said:
You can also delete the hibernation cache on the disk clean up facility. That apparently will kill hibernation.

i was just using the search to find out why my hibernate has gone missing and i think you've told me why, i did a disk clean up yesterday so i musta killed it.... any idea how to get it back??

Uhtred · 2 Nov 2007 at 18:20

Yes the real problem is getting the hibernation file back after it's been turned off. Couldn't believe i had to do it through the command line

Fire Wizard · 2 Nov 2007 at 18:30

Hey <De@thW!sh>, to get the hibernation file back, simply type "cmd" into the start menu search bar and run it with administrative rights. Once the cmd window appears, type the following:

powercfg -h on (Press Enter).

Now if you open up the "Disk Cleanup" program, you should now see under the "Files to delete" option, "Hibernation File Cleaner".

<Dubz> · 2 Nov 2007 at 18:44

well i've dont that but still no option to use hibernate but i'll try the power key as thats what i had it set to.

it may reappear after reboot but i'm off to work now so i'll find out in the morning.