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The Allow Hybrid Sleep and Hibernate After Power

To enable or disable hibernation on a Windows computer, open an elevated command prompt and use the powercfg command with parameters -h on to enable or -h off to disable hibernation. Enabling will restore the hiberfil.sys file and hibernation power options, while disabling will delete hiberfil.sys and remove hibernation from power menus and options.

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The Allow Hybrid Sleep and Hibernate After Power

To enable or disable hibernation on a Windows computer, open an elevated command prompt and use the powercfg command with parameters -h on to enable or -h off to disable hibernation. Enabling will restore the hiberfil.sys file and hibernation power options, while disabling will delete hiberfil.sys and remove hibernation from power menus and options.

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Enable or Disable Hibernate in Elevated Command Prompt

1. Open an elevated command prompt.


2. Do step 3 or step 4 below for what you would like to do.
3. To Enable Hibernate
NOTE: This step will restore the hiberfil.sys file, and the Allow hybrid
sleep and Hibernate after Power Options underSleep.
A) In the elevated command prompt, copy and paste the command below, and
press Enter. (see screenshot below)
powercfg -h on

C) If you would also like to have hibernate turned on, then you will also need do
to step 2 in OPTION FOURbelow.
D) If you like, you may also wish to add or remove Hibernate from power
menus.
E) Go to step 5 below.
4. To Disable Hibernate
NOTE: This step will disable hibernation, delete the hiberfil.sys file, and remove
the Allow hybrid sleep and Hibernate after Power
Options under Sleep. This will also disable fast startup in Windows 8.
A)In the elevated command prompt, copy and paste the command below, and
press Enter. (see screenshot below)
powercfg -h of

B) Check your Power Options to make sure that the Critical battery
action and Low battery action settings under Battery are not set
to Hibernate, and go to step 5 below. (see screenshot below)

5. You can now close the elevated command prompt if you like.

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