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Re: XP: Disable or Enable Hibernation

Martingashion — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 04:28:29 -0000

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

Re: XP: Disable or Enable Hibernation

Anoopkumar — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:40:12 -0000

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

Re: XP: Disable or Enable Hibernation

Rb2750 — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:50:14 -0000

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

Re: XP: Disable or Enable Hibernation

Nikhu Shukla — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 04:46:40 -0000

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

Re: XP: Disable or Enable Hibernation

Foxman2010uf — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 21:12:06 -0000

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

Re: XP: Disable or Enable Hibernation

Sendyourspam — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:20:56 -0000

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.

Re: XP: Disable or Enable Hibernation

guest — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:21:57 -0000

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.

Re: XP: Disable or Enable Hibernation

Shyam — Tue, 18 May 2010 09:20:34 -0000

Thnx

Re: XP: Disable or Enable Hibernation

Dan — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:30:29 -0000

Hold down the shift key.

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tahir_Elec — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:12:17 -0000

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?

Re: XP: Disable or Enable Hibernation

abaxis — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:20:50 -0000

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

Re: XP: Disable or Enable Hibernation

LJ Core — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:07:40 -0000

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

Re: XP: Disable or Enable Hibernation

schilcote — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:28:04 -0000

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.

Re: XP: Disable or Enable Hibernation

WRJ — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:31:37 -0000

"powercfg.exe /H OFF" is the commandline option

Re: XP: Disable or Enable Hibernation

LJ Core — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:30:50 -0000

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...

Re: XP: Disable or Enable Hibernation

advice — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:34:57 -0000

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

Re: XP: Disable or Enable Hibernation

tominfl — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:37:01 -0000

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???