HIBERNATE!

[Guest]

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!

 

[Val]

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

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[dean-dean]

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.

 

[Guest]

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