Windows 10: How to Enable or Disable Hibernation using PowerCFG command line in Windows 10

Hibernation allows you to save the state of the computer without losing any unsaved […]

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Windows 10 gets stuck booting with some laptop configurations if hibernation is enabled. Please make it easy to disable hibernation

Open Administrator Command Prompt:

• powercfg /H OFF <-- this will eliminate all hibernation types
• powercfg /H REDUCED <-- this allows for a smaller hiberfil.sys, which only allows for Fast Startup.
• powercfg /H /? <-- explains options

powercfg /h /?

POWERCFG /HIBERNATE <ON|OFF>
POWERCFG /HIBERNATE /SIZE <PERCENT_SIZE>
POWERCFG /HIBERNATE /TYPE <REDUCED|FULL>
Alias:

POWERCFG /H
Description:

Enables/disables the hibernate feature or sets the hiberfile size.
Parameter List:

<ON|OFF> Enables/disables the hibernate feature.
/SIZE <PERCENT_SIZE> Specifies the desired hiberfile size as a percentage

of the total memory size. The default size cannot be

smaller than 40. This parameter will also cause

hibernate to be enabled.
/TYPE <REDUCED|FULL> Specifies the desired hiberfile type. A reduced

hiberfile only supports hiberboot.
Examples:

POWERCFG /HIBERNATE OFF
POWERCFG /HIBERNATE /SIZE 100
POWERCFG /HIBERNATE /TYPE REDUCED

Also, in Settings - Power & sleep - Additional power settings you can
Choose what the power button does.

There you can uncheck Turn on fast startup. That might eliminate this issue without disabling hibernation, if full hibernation actually still works well for you. You may just have one hardware component that is not resuming from sleep state
properly, but that can be hard to track down.

 

Sleep and hibernate command line

There are two terms which are close but different, at least I look at them differently

There is the BIOS fast, quick, speedy boot and as far as I know the only way to change that setting is to enter BIOS and make the change.

There is Windows Fast Start Up and that is something you can change in Windows. If you disable hibernation using the
powercfg -h off
command it, by default, disables Windows Fast Start Up. If you issue command powercfg -h on to re-enable it will turn hibernation back on and assuming you have not changed Fast Startup it will re-enable. If that is how you disable Fast Startup, and we are talking about same "Fast" they enabling hibernation will enable it.

You can can also control Windows Fast Startup manually with this tutorial.

Turn On or Off Fast Startup in Windows 10

If you shut Windows Fast Startup off this way you can continue to use hibernation as a power setting.

I'm unaware of a command line that changes the state of Windows Fast Startup. I'm sure if it was readily known Shawn would have included in tutorial.

Ken

 

GPU-Z what command line parameter ?

Suggestion: /? (-?) and /help (-help) command-line arguments to show a list of all possible arguments in a small window. *Smile