Comments on: Fixing Hibernate Problems in Windows Vista

By: sebus

sebus — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:51:09 +0000

How about following instructions (if you do not know what you doing in fist place!): start command prompt “Run as Administrator”

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 03:56:11 +0000

I tried the procedure below to restore the hibernate function to my compaq vista laptop, but didnt have permission to do it. i should have admin privileges under my logon.

C:\Users\Computer>powercfg -h on
You do not have permission to enable or disable the Hibernate feature.

C:\Users\Computer>

What can I do ?

thx

If your hardware does support hibernation but it still stubbornly refuses to bunker down for the winter, either the hibernation option has been disabled or the Hibernation File Cleaner has been deleted by the Disk Cleanup Utility. Both these options are easily fixed using the powercfg utility again. To turn hibernation back on, type powercfg -h on. The short video below shows you how easy this really is (toggle full screen mode on the flash player for best results).

By: Allison

Allison — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:22:59 +0000

I’d like to echo Jose’s comments in July:
I can not wake my computer from hibernation. How do I update any driver when I cannot get the computer to turn on? thanks in advance!

By: Nicole

Nicole — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:18:27 +0000

I have an HP with Vista that hibernates randomly when I’m in the middle of doing something. There’s no problem getting it to hibernate, it’s getting it not to hibernate. To bring it back I just press the ‘on’ button and everything comes back and I don’t lose any work, but it’s really annoying that it keeps hibernating!
Sometimes I can work for a few hours without hibernating, other times just 20 mins or so…

Any ideas?

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 04:00:27 +0000

Thanks this is brilliant help. I wish Windows left hibernate alone. I love it as a function.
Thanks for the help

By: Jose

Jose — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:15:09 +0000

I can not wake my computer from hibernation. How do I update any driver when I cannot get the computer to turn on?

By: rakesh

rakesh — Thu, 26 May 2011 23:39:17 +0000

Hey, i use DELL inspiron 1525, OS:vista. when i hibernate my computer, it actually restarts from the beginning but it don’t lose d currently running programs . I mean it doesn’t hibernate its awake. i tried ur powercfg -h on but no solution. any other idea ? Thanks in advance.

By: David Palmer

David Palmer — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:17:25 +0000

The one hibernate error you don’t mention is where the machine hibernates but when it comes back to life Windows says the machine was not shut down properly. This happens every time on my Dell 1525 which is a sparse as yours!

By: mohammed abd elmonim

mohammed abd elmonim — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:11:08 +0000

really it is a problem in vista .
when imake vista hypernat . it wakes up but with very slow response
after that not responding , and then the whole system did not boot up
looks like a CPU problem or HD failure .
really it is terrible problem but I manage to solve it .simply remove the battery .and install it again it will works , if GOD will .
thank GOD

By: randykun

randykun — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:27:49 +0000

i appreciate alot, i do alot of work and would like to stop from where i stopped, i lost the hibernate option after i ran the disk utility clean up, thanks for the suggestions. it worked well