Erwyn van der Meer

Do you have a cached version of "The Windows Shutdown Crapfest"? It's giving me a 404, and I'd really like to see what he has to say.

Guess what happens when you combine the greatest and the lamest Windows Vista feature. I have a Shutdown

To my knowledge you have to turn on Hibernation (at leas on XP). Its on your desktop settings under power management...

I have this exact same problem on a Toshiba M7 running Vista RTM. The Hibernate menu was there for at least a week and now it is gone. I was hoping this post will shed some light on how to get it back but the search goes on. I too have mapped the power button to hibernate but I'd still like to see the hibernate option in the start menu.

Hi there, I had the same problem but when I read your text saying, that another PC had the option, I figured it was a setting under Power Options - and I was right. 1. You just goto Power Options. 2. Select your current plan, and choose "Change plan settings" 3. Select "Change advanced power settings" 4. Select "Power buttins and lid" 5. Assign the desired option to each of the choices, for instance "Sleep button action" should be set to "Hibernate" to achive your goal ;) If you like, I have made a screenshot, but this blog does not support image uploads as far as i can see. Enjoy :)

None other than Jim Allchin, the soon to retire Co-President of the Platform and Services Division at

On my HP laptop The power option can be found, R-click / Personalize / Screen Saver / Change power settings / Check the left side task options. I set up my system to hibernate, but it only partway shuts down and nothing but a hard power button shut down turns off the computer.

thanks for the update on this problem.  I had been testing Vista on a few different laptops, and then I got one that did not have the Hibernate option.  So you saved me a lot of time of searching through knowledgebases.

i have windows xp. in the power options, under advanced, there is something called power buttons. it is set on hibernate for some reason. I don't have it set to hibernate, just shut off montier. what should the power button be set on. i have a feeling that setting on the power button is wrong. any help you can give me would be helpful.

powercfg.exe /hibernate on

at an administrator command prompt did the trick for me :)

The hibernate option will not appear if you do not have enough free disk space on your system drive to accomodate all the memory storage. This hasn't changed much since XP in principle; in XP, you'll notice the Hibernate option becomes ghosted if there's insufficient space.

Hi All,

     To get the hibernate option back in Vista just go to the command prompt shortcut and press Shift button while you do a right click. Now chose "run as administrator" With this command window run the command "powercfg /hibernate on". kaaboooomm.. Hibernate is back... I am so relieved.

Pranav

1>Bring up command window (Start->run->"Command") without the quotes

2> Type in the followingcommand

powercfg -H ON  (replace ON with OFF to toggle)

3>Hit ENTER

4>You will see NOTHING, no confirmation at all. That's real user friendly!

5>Now check your shut down option (that > button). You should have Hibernate on the menu!

even the command line didn't solve my hibernate crisis. disabled hybrid sleep by going into power settings, configuring my active settings (high performance) choosing advanced settings, sleep, allow hybrid sleep noooo, say ok, make a change to one of those two options there or it wont let you save, like change the monitor off time to 15 minutes, and save changes. then it will work instantly. gonna test hibernate now :D

My problem is, I had it, and then it disappered. Could it be because I changed my power button settings to hibernate?

I've had Vista installed for months and had the hibernate option on my laptop.

I recently re-installed and now the hibernate option is MIA...

Just found this:

http://www.reviewingit.com/index.php/content/view/32/2/

run this as admin:

powercfg /hibernate on

Windows Vista combines standby and hibernate into a single power-saving state called sleep.

just slept, pulled battery and plug. When I powered back it resumed.

The Vista Sleep option, does not work on most Computers, and on laptops, if I pull the battery out, it will not resume. So it can't be used to change my battery.

run this as admin:

powercfg /hibernate on

works perfectly

The commandline worked for me.

I think my Hibernate disappeared when I did a Disk Cleanup, and chose the Hibernation File Cleaner option. It even says "Removing this file will disable hibernation."

This happened to me, so I figured out F1 could be helpful for once and it led me to this page: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;928897

Basically it's the same as the comments posted by the last few users; if the hibernate disappeared in every option and that happened after hibernate, run command prompt as administrator and turn back hibernate by typing "powercfg -h on"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920730/en-us

I found this cause i had the issue of it disappearing from the menu.

Do it and i guarantee it'll fix it!

No, I think you're wrong. It's not related (control panel\power manage\options) to the "Virtual" button in your start menu, but it does mean "the real one", on Your PC!!

Hey I would like to thank everyone loads for this!, I had this problem, for some reason all of a sudden the hibernate on my lappy stopped working and the option went, I was almost going to phone the tech guys but I didnt and managed to get it working through the command prompt powercfg.exe /hibernate on thing, I did have to run as administrator but other than that no probs and now it works! Thank you!

very imformative post and replies. As per usual microsoft manages to obfuscate a simple procedure. The slippery road to bloatware and what comes along with this is never far off for these guys it seems. I guess when you have a department you are paying to look at an issue (power management in this case) they are going to come up with something even if the established solution already works, and does so well. The need to combine standy and hibernate in when the two of them work just fine is the case in point here. Besides the command the other option to get hibernate back on is hidden deep in the advanced settings of the power management, and there's absolutely no reason for that imo. Same case with the dial up connection, now you have to go through three separate menus and a confirmation on to make one and another three to check the status of the connection, whilst a double click on the taskbar icon would have sufficed in previous versions. Bloatware is what happens when no one takes an initiative to break this monstrosity (in size) of a corporation down to its parts and initiate some competion and common standards in the market place.

I found out how to get the hibernation option back with 10 steps. Of course remove/omit all the ""quotes""! 1. Go to the command prompt icon in the Start menu under Accessories and right click the icon: click "Run as administrator". 2. Paste: "powercfg.exe /hibernate on" and hit Enter and also paste "powercfg -h on" and hit enter just to be safe. 3. Open Control Panel and type in "Hibernate" in the Search. 4. Click "Turn hibernation on or off" 5. Click "Change advance power settings" 6. Scroll to and expand the "Sleep" option. 7. Select "Off" to the "Allow hybrid sleep" option. 8. Scroll to and expand the "Power buttons and lid" option. 9. Select "Hibernate" for the "Sleep button action" option. 10. Select "Hibernate" for the "Start menu power button" option.

that command prompt really worked for me thanks. i was gettin spooked cause my laptop couldn't hibernate

I used the command prompt option as administrator , but the Hibernate option was still not available in the shutdown options menu. I went to power options, change power plan settings, change advanced power settings went under sleep option and disabled Hibird Sleep and now Hibernate shows in the options menu.

realmente funcionou

conforme o combinado!

logar como adm

e depois  powercfg /hibernate on

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abraçoss

The hibernate function was workign just fine till I did a disk clean up...

I suspect that is the root of the problem... (For what reason is WAY WAY beyond me).

Thank you for all the info...

If all teh sure fire solutions dont work.. re-install always does the trick

Click on your Vista start menu and right click on the command prompt. Make sure you choose to run as administrator.

Type the following command:

powercfg /hibernate on

Now check your shutdown options you should see the hibernate option appears on it.

Hope this will help you....

For those who wondered why Vista would have got "hybrid-Sleep" for some systems and "non-hybrid Sleep" (classic standby) + Hibernation for the others, it's in their bios power management options.

If motherboard's bios supports only S1 power state (or you set it that way) Vista will have separate (none-hybrid) Sleep-Hibernation options. The real hybrid-Sleep will be available only if S3 power state is enabled in the bios (to let vista get suspended in the RAM).

And for those who wondered how big a bloat-ware is Vista really, they might check out other competitors' offerings (e.g. latest Mac OS) and compare some features/codebase ratios. They're all actually as condense as they come. Sure, vista -unlike others- still carries some heavy anachronistic codes libraries for some inordinate backward compatibilities; but for being a bloat-ware, it's still far away from being branded as such.

Thank you.

Does anyone know why the disk cleanup disable Hibernation? For some reason I checked the box on disk cleanup saying clean hibernation files. I thought that this would clear the memory my computer has been using to save and hibernate, but it didn't i got hibernation back but i want to know why.

hi

powercfg /hibernate on

i try this option but i get this result

"you do not have permission to ...."

but i am using administrator account this also happen when i try to update my antivirus manually.

Yellow

U have to tray this.

powercfg -h on

Of course before U have to be logged as Administrator.

FARAZ, I was having the same problem.  Here is the FIX (Obtained from MS Solutions):

SYMPTOMS

After you use the Disk Cleanup Tool in Windows Vista, you may experience the following symptoms:

• You cannot see the Hibernate option in Power Options.

• When you use the sleep feature, the computer does not recover its settings if power is lost.

CAUSE

This problem occurs when the Disk Cleanup Tool disables the hibernation file. The hibernation file must be enabled to access the hybrid sleep feature and the hibernation feature in Windows Vista.

When the hibernation file is disabled, and the hybrid sleep feature is enabled, a backup of open programs and open files will not be saved to the disk when you use the sleep feature in Windows Vista. Additionally, if the computer loses power while the Windows is in sleep mode, open programs and open files will not be recovered, and any unsaved work will be lost.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem in Windows Vista, run the powercfg -h on command at a command prompt to enable the hibernate feature and the hybrid sleep feature. To run this command, follow these steps:

1. Click Start, click All Programs, and then click Accessories.

2. Right-click Command Prompt, click Run as administrator, type powercfg -h on, and then press ENTER.

NOTE***  See #1 Above, thats the key we have been missing!

Good Luck ALL!   Joey

the same thing happened to me!! hear is why hibernate is missing: You ran disck clean up!!! this is one of the many bugs still with vista that has yet to be resolved.

Now hear is how to get it back:

Click Start, click All Programs, and then click Accessories.

then you Right-click Command Prompt, click Run as administrator, type powercfg -h on, and then press ENTER.

Disk Clean-Up Utility removes Hibernate.

you have to run CMD as Administrator, explains here.  

>   support.microsoft.com/.../929658   <

Go to Control Panel --> Power Options --> Change Settings --> Change Advanced Power Settings, find out where under the sleep options, hybrid sleep is enabled or not. Hybrid sleep is the combination of the classical standby and hibernate. If Hybrid sleep is enabled, when you choose to turned your computer to sleep, all of your data on your RAM will be saved to hard disk. You can turn off your PC without any loss of data.

yes!! thanks for all your info!! It happened because of disk cleanup then if you do what JASON said: Windows Vista Hibernate Mystery

Saturday, August 25, 2007 6:03 AM by jason

the same thing happened to me!! hear is why hibernate is missing: You ran disck clean up!!! this is one of the many bugs still with vista that has yet to be resolved.

Now hear is how to get it back:

Click Start, click All Programs, and then click Accessories.

then you Right-click Command Prompt, click Run as administrator, type powercfg -h on, and then press ENTER.

IT WILL ALL WORK ALRIGHT!! THANKS TO THIS WEBSITE BLOG!

My work laptop was recently upgraded to a Vostro 1510, but I was having some issues getting things to