HIBERNATE!

I am currently using Vista Home Premium and have recently lost the "Sleep"
and "Hibernate" options. I normally use both very frequently so I am finding
this very bothersome. I read many of the threads on this website (not all
that I could have, I admit), but I cannot seem to to find an answer as to how
to retrieve these options. PLEASE HELP!

I'm not sure why sleep would go away, but hibernate ability can be lost a
few ways.

Since you had both options available, you probably did not have hybrid sleep
enabled. So, try this to get hibernation back

Open a command window as administrator.
run command powercfg /hibernate on

Does that help?

Val


"Leeper" <Leeper@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:33829CE5-2C3C-4AA8-A594-8E1EE63F43D4@microsoft.com...
>I am currently using Vista Home Premium and have recently lost the "Sleep"
> and "Hibernate" options. I normally use both very frequently so I am
> finding
> this very bothersome. I read many of the threads on this website (not all
> that I could have, I admit), but I cannot seem to to find an answer as to
> how
> to retrieve these options. PLEASE HELP!

Wow, I must have been needing some sleep myself when I wrote that because I
definitly have the sleep option. I am the only person who has ever had an
account on my computer because it is my personal laptop and thus I am the
administrator (or so, I thought). I went to start, typed in "command" and
"Command Prompt" came up, so I assumed that was what you were referring to.
I typed in "powercfg /hibernate on" and received the following message: "You
do not have permission to enable or disable the hibernate feature." I
regularly update my computer so maybe it could be an update that I installed?
On one of the threads that I have read on this site I saw a picture of where
to find "Hybrid Sleep" within the power settings as I had never come across
this before and I was unable to see it on my own computer so I'm not sure
that I would have ever turned it on.

"Val" wrote:

> I'm not sure why sleep would go away, but hibernate ability can be lost a
> few ways.
>
> Since you had both options available, you probably did not have hybrid sleep
> enabled. So, try this to get hibernation back
>
> Open a command window as administrator.
> run command powercfg /hibernate on
>
> Does that help?
>
> Val
>
>
> "Leeper" <Leeper@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:33829CE5-2C3C-4AA8-A594-8E1EE63F43D4@microsoft.com...
> >I am currently using Vista Home Premium and have recently lost the "Sleep"
> > and "Hibernate" options. I normally use both very frequently so I am
> > finding
> > this very bothersome. I read many of the threads on this website (not all
> > that I could have, I admit), but I cannot seem to to find an answer as to
> > how
> > to retrieve these options. PLEASE HELP!
>
>
>

You have to run Command Prompt as Administrator, by right-clicking the
shortcut. Here are the Instructions:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929658

Note the part about "The Disk Cleanup Utility has been used to delete the
Hibernation File", which is probably what happened.

"Leeper" <Leeper@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:18163246-39CD-4F4E-9796-8929A77ED8F9@microsoft.com...
> Wow, I must have been needing some sleep myself when I wrote that because
> I
> definitly have the sleep option. I am the only person who has ever had an
> account on my computer because it is my personal laptop and thus I am the
> administrator (or so, I thought). I went to start, typed in "command" and
> "Command Prompt" came up, so I assumed that was what you were referring
> to.
> I typed in "powercfg /hibernate on" and received the following message:
> "You
> do not have permission to enable or disable the hibernate feature." I
> regularly update my computer so maybe it could be an update that I
> installed?
> On one of the threads that I have read on this site I saw a picture of
> where
> to find "Hybrid Sleep" within the power settings as I had never come
> across
> this before and I was unable to see it on my own computer so I'm not sure
> that I would have ever turned it on.
>
> "Val" wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure why sleep would go away, but hibernate ability can be lost a
>> few ways.
>>
>> Since you had both options available, you probably did not have hybrid
>> sleep
>> enabled. So, try this to get hibernation back
>>
>> Open a command window as administrator.
>> run command powercfg /hibernate on
>>
>> Does that help?
>>
>> Val
>>
>>
>> "Leeper" <Leeper@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:33829CE5-2C3C-4AA8-A594-8E1EE63F43D4@microsoft.com...
>> >I am currently using Vista Home Premium and have recently lost the
>> >"Sleep"
>> > and "Hibernate" options. I normally use both very frequently so I am
>> > finding
>> > this very bothersome. I read many of the threads on this website (not
>> > all
>> > that I could have, I admit), but I cannot seem to to find an answer as
>> > to
>> > how
>> > to retrieve these options. PLEASE HELP!
>>
>>
>>

Well that worked. I guess all I had to do was right click. :$ Thank-you

"Leeper" wrote:

> Wow, I must have been needing some sleep myself when I wrote that because I
> definitly have the sleep option. I am the only person who has ever had an
> account on my computer because it is my personal laptop and thus I am the
> administrator (or so, I thought). I went to start, typed in "command" and
> "Command Prompt" came up, so I assumed that was what you were referring to.
> I typed in "powercfg /hibernate on" and received the following message: "You
> do not have permission to enable or disable the hibernate feature." I
> regularly update my computer so maybe it could be an update that I installed?
> On one of the threads that I have read on this site I saw a picture of where
> to find "Hybrid Sleep" within the power settings as I had never come across
> this before and I was unable to see it on my own computer so I'm not sure
> that I would have ever turned it on.
>
> "Val" wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure why sleep would go away, but hibernate ability can be lost a
> > few ways.
> >
> > Since you had both options available, you probably did not have hybrid sleep
> > enabled. So, try this to get hibernation back
> >
> > Open a command window as administrator.
> > run command powercfg /hibernate on
> >
> > Does that help?
> >
> > Val
> >
> >
> > "Leeper" <Leeper@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:33829CE5-2C3C-4AA8-A594-8E1EE63F43D4@microsoft.com...
> > >I am currently using Vista Home Premium and have recently lost the "Sleep"
> > > and "Hibernate" options. I normally use both very frequently so I am
> > > finding
> > > this very bothersome. I read many of the threads on this website (not all
> > > that I could have, I admit), but I cannot seem to to find an answer as to
> > > how
> > > to retrieve these options. PLEASE HELP!
> >
> >
> >