Turn off computer Hibernate Button

[Christian Blackburn]

Hi Gang,

I know you can press Shift and the standby button will turn into the
hibernate button when you try to turn off your computer. However, on
many OEM PC's I've noticed that the hibernate button is always
visible. Does anyone know how to make that happen by default?

Thanks,
Christian Blackburn
Fast and Friendly Computer Repair

 

[Claymore]

Hi Gang,

I know you can press Shift and the standby button will turn into the
hibernate button when you try to turn off your computer.  However, on
many OEM PC's I've noticed that the hibernate button is always
visible. Does anyone know how to make that happen by default?

Thanks,
Christian Blackburn
Fast and Friendly Computer Repair

Hello Christian,

Start => Settings => Control Panel => Power Options => Hibernate tab
Check the box 'Turn on hibernation'.
Be aware that hibernation requires a noticeable amount of hard drive
space. See the number in 'Disk space required to hibernate'.

 

[Christian Blackburn]

Hi Claymore,

I appreciate your efforts to help, however that isn't the problem at
all. I can hibernate until the cows come home the problem is when I
click on [Start] --> Turn Off Computer there are only three buttons
Standy, Shutdown and Restart, no hibernate. If press shift I can see
and use the hibernate feature, I don't want to have to press shift.

Thanks,
Christian

 

[Claymore]

Hi Claymore,

I appreciate your efforts to help, however that isn't the problem at
all.  I can hibernate until the cows come home the problem is when I
click on [Start] --> Turn Off Computer there are only three buttons
Standy, Shutdown and Restart, no hibernate.  If press shift I can see
and use the hibernate feature, I don't want to have to press shift.

Thanks,
Christian

Hello again,

Sorry, I misunderstood.

The only solution I've seen, other than there is some Microsoft hotfix
that can be applied for is this:

It worked on my laptop, but not on my desktop:

Copy the text below between the dotted lines, but not the dotted lines
themselves. Open Notepad and paste it in. Save the result in a
suitable location as hibernate.reg - making sure that the default .txt
extension doesn't appear in the file name (Save as type = All Files).
Double-click on the saved .reg file to merge the contents.

------ cut below here -------

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System
\Shutdown]
"ShowHibernateButton"=dword:00000001

------ cut above here -------

 

[ju.c]

Here's the full key:

--------------------------------------------
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System\Shutdown]
"HibernateAsDefault"=dword:00000001
"ShowHibernateButton"=dword:00000001

 

[Christian Blackburn]

Hi JUC and Claymore,

Thank you both for the gems. I just imported them into my registry
and will restart explorer in a moment. I will say that whichever
programmer at Microsoft came up with the value HibernateAsDefault
wasn't using all his marbles. It should have been something like
DefaultButton=1,2,3,4 or DefaultButton="Hibernate".

--------------------------------------------
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System\Shutdown]
"HibernateAsDefault"=dword:00000001
"ShowHibernateButton"=dword:00000001
--------------------------------------------

Cheers,
Christian

 

[Unknown]

If it were that way, thousands of users would want it the way it is. I.E. As
a programmer you will NEVER please everyone.
Be thankful there is a way to change programs.

Hi JUC and Claymore,

Thank you both for the gems. I just imported them into my registry
and will restart explorer in a moment. I will say that whichever
programmer at Microsoft came up with the value HibernateAsDefault
wasn't using all his marbles. It should have been something like
DefaultButton=1,2,3,4 or DefaultButton="Hibernate".

--------------------------------------------
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System\Shutdown]
"HibernateAsDefault"=dword:00000001
"ShowHibernateButton"=dword:00000001
--------------------------------------------

Cheers,
Christian