Windows 10: Making W10 **SHUTDOWN** Instead of HIbernating

How can I make Windows 10 shutdown instead of hibernating? Everytime I shutdown, then turn my PC back on, I have to do a hard reboot because VeraCrypt gets all confused.

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shortcut to make the computer sleep/hibernate

I would like a shortcut to make the Win 10 desktop computer sleep/hibernate as I was able to do in XP. No multiple steps, reaching down to press the desktop computer power button or other inconvenient methods. Would like to be able to sleep in the daytime
and hibernate at night (with power off). If I make a Shortcut: rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0; and if the computer is set to allow hibernate, then i have to use the power button down on the computer to start up again instead of any key.

 

Is it ok to Hibernate on W10

Just for clarity, what are the specific steps that you took in adding the hibernate option to the Start menu? We will give you the most advisable way in adding back the hibernate option to the Start menu. Kindly do the following steps using an administrator
account:

• Type control panel on the search bar.
• Click on Control Panel.
• Click on System and Security.
• Click on Power Options.
• On the left panel, click on Choose what the power buttons do.
• Click on Change settings that are currently unavailable.
• Put a check on Hibernate.
• Click on Save changes, then close the window.

If the steps that you took are different from what we have given, we highly recommend that you do the given steps instead.

Let us know if you need further assistance with your concern.

 

Open an Admin Cmd prompt and type the following:

Powercfg -h off

to disable hibernation, since your system has problems with it.

 

Two things that MS never did get quite right, are Hibernate and Sleep.
I totally disable both on every system I set up with Windows.

Besides the obvious, of shutting off Hibernate, you also get rid of that huge and obnoxious "Hiberfil.sys" file in your root directory, saving a lot of valuable disk space.

MS in their infinite wisdom, made it really hard to just shut down your PC when you're done with it.
So some people will just leave it on....... Not Good! Or some will hold down the Power ON button, till the PC shuts off.
Again, NOT GOOD!

However, there is a very quick and easy way to shut down your PC with just a click of a Desktop Icon.

You can right click on your Desktop and create a new Shortcut.
Here is the text of that Shutdown Shortcut:

%windir%\System32\shutdown.exe /s /t 1

Spacing is important, so if you can just copy and paste the above line into a new desktop shortcut, everything should work OK. Then you can do a quick and efficient Shutdown of your PC, by just clicking on that shortcut.

I've been sharing Quick Shutdown shortcuts with my customers since the Windows 98 days. Most love the simplicity of it.

Cheers Mate!
*Cool

 

I prefer Powercfg -h off as Fafhrd said then make sure the Power button in Power Options is set to Shutdown.
Then press the Power button once and let go and it will shutdown.

I usually do this as I'm walking away. Press the power button, turn off the monitor, turn off the lights in the room and go read a book or go to bed (depends on the time).

 

Thank you, that did it *Smile

I don't know, I never had a problem with it on XP/Vista/7 (never used 8). And I wouldn't have a problem on 10 if I didn't encrypt my drive either *Smile The only problem is that Windows 10 seems stupid to recognize my old keyboard and it (the keyboard) freezes on every boot, I literally have to plug it off and then on again to make it work. However, that's not possible to do on VeraCrypt's password request screen, and thus I could not type my passphrase, and thus I could not boot, having to do a hard reset.

Interesting. That file is 3.2 GB in my case, so that could allow me to install a few extra games here *Wink

I assume you're talking about Windows 10 only?

And then they come up to forums asking why their drivers have hundreds (if not thousands) of bad sectors *Wink

Thanks, I appreciate it! *Biggrin But given that the other solution is much easier and require less effort on every shutdown, I will stick with it. *Tongue

Cheers!

 

I agree 100%. Never saw a need to use either, especially now that systems boot so fast, thanks to OS optimizations and SSDs.

 

an easier solution:
hold the shift key while you click on "shut down."

 

This also worked for me and gor rid of WTS failures:

Event ID 3 - Session "ReadyBoot" stopped - error: 3221225864