How to enable Hibernate in Windows 8 OS

Posted Date: 19-Sep-2011	Category: Windows 8 News	Rating:
Author: Varun Kumar	Member Level: Diamond	Points: 40

Read this article to know more about the step by step procedure on how to enable Hibernate option in Windows 8 operating system. Follow the steps mentioned in the article to enable Hibernate in Windows 8 OS.

As I am testing the new Windows 8 operating system, I wrote few articles on Windows 8 OS likeHow to share files between Windows 7 and Windows 8 operating system, How to automatically Logon to Windows 8 OS, How to create Shutdown shortcut in Windows 8 and described the procedure oncreating user accounts in Windows 8 operating system.

In this resource, I am interested to describe the step by step procedure on how to enable "Hibernate" option in Windows 8 operating system. Follow the step by step procedure mentioned below to use the "Power Options" in Windows 8 operating system.

Steps to be followed to enable Hibernate in Windows 8 OS

1) If you are in the Metro screen of Windows 8, press "Windows+R" in your keyboard to bet "Run" dialog box.

2) In the run dialog box, type "powercfg.cpl" and press Enter.

Registry Editor for enabling hibernate option in Windows 8

Registry Editor for enabling hibernate option in Windows 8

3) Once you press the enter, you will be taken to the "Power Options" page.

Power options in Windows 8 OS

4) In the power options page, on the left side, click on "Choose what the power button does".

5) Once you click on the button, you will be taken to "Power button Define Page".

6) Click on the "Change settings that are currently unavailable".

Changing settings in power options in Windows 8

Changing settings in power options in Windows 8

7) Once you click on that, under the "Power option settings", you can check the box, which shows "Show hibernate" and then save the changes made.

Power options settings in Windows 8 OS

8) After saving the changes, you can now see "Hibernate" option under the "shutdown" button.

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