You may be able to hibernate a Microsoft Windows 7 computer even if you don't see the hibernate option listed when you hit Ctrl-Alt-Del and click on the power button but see only the Shut down and Sleep options or if you click on the Windows Start button and then click on the arrow head next to the shut down button and see only the Sleep option. Try getting a command prompt, instead, which you can obtain by clicking on the Start button and typing
cmd and hitting enter and then type shutdown /h
or shutdown /h /f if you also want running applications to be
forced to close. Not all PCs may support hibernate mode. You can issue the
command powercfg -availablesleepstates at a command prompt to
see if hibernation mode is available on the system.C:\>powercfg -availablesleepstates
The following sleep states are available on this system: Standby ( S3 ) Hibernat
e Hybrid Sleep
The following sleep states are not available on this system:
Standby (S1)
The system firmware does not support this standby state.
Standby (S2)
The system firmware does not support this standby state.Another option for the powercfg command, - hibernate
or -h, enables or disables hibernation. You can see
all available options with powercfg /?.
-HIBERNATE, -H
Enables-Disables the hibernate feature. Hibernate timeout is not
supported on all systems.
Usage: POWERCFG -H <ON|OFF>
POWERCFG -H -Size <PercentSize>
-Size Specifies the desired hiberfile size in percentage of the
total memory. The default size cannot be smaller than 50.
This switch will also enable the hiberfile automatically.
-AVAILABLESLEEPSTATES, -A
Reports the sleep states available on the system
Attempts to report reasons why sleep states are unavailable.
