In many cases you want to increase free size of your system drive then you can use this method to disable or enable the hibernate option in your window. You can increase free space by amount equal to your RAM size but in case of windows 7 it is approximately 75% of the RAM size.
To make hibernation unavailable, follow these steps:
- Click Start, and then type cmd in the Start Search box.
- In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as Administrator.
- When you are prompted by User Account Control, click Continue.
- At the command prompt, type “powercfg.exe /hibernate off” without quotes, and then press ENTER.
- Type exit and then press ENTER to close the Command Prompt window.
To make hibernation available, follow these steps:
- Click Start, and then type cmd in the Start Search box.
- In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as Administrator.
- When you are prompted by User Account Control, click Continue.
- At the command prompt, type “powercfg.exe /hibernate on” without quotes, and then press ENTER.
- Type exit and then press ENTER to close the Command Prompt window.
Enjoy…
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Great article Sarabjit!
Sometimes the hibernate option does not show though when you click the arrow next to Shutdown on Windows 7. In that case try this:
http://cyberst0rm.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-to-enable-hibernate-in-windows-7.html