Hey all,
I have the hibernation option disabled on my laptop (Dell XPS 12), and I've also disabled the rapid start technology that uses hibernation. Even when turning those features off, I noticed there was still an 8 GB hibernation file sitting on my hard drive; upon doing some research, I discovered typing "powercfg -h off" on the command prompt would ensure that file was removed, and it did indeed work.
So I thought everything was fine except the other day I left the laptop running while on battery, playing music. Even though in the power settings it is set to hibernate the laptop when the battery gets low (critical battery action is set to "hibernate," and critical battery level says 5%) it did not--it actually ran the battery until it died, without hibernating. Is this expected behaviour when hibernation is turned completely off? I had assumed even with hibernation disabled, it would still resort to that when the battery reached critical level.
Thanks.
I have the hibernation option disabled on my laptop (Dell XPS 12), and I've also disabled the rapid start technology that uses hibernation. Even when turning those features off, I noticed there was still an 8 GB hibernation file sitting on my hard drive; upon doing some research, I discovered typing "powercfg -h off" on the command prompt would ensure that file was removed, and it did indeed work.
So I thought everything was fine except the other day I left the laptop running while on battery, playing music. Even though in the power settings it is set to hibernate the laptop when the battery gets low (critical battery action is set to "hibernate," and critical battery level says 5%) it did not--it actually ran the battery until it died, without hibernating. Is this expected behaviour when hibernation is turned completely off? I had assumed even with hibernation disabled, it would still resort to that when the battery reached critical level.
Thanks.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Win 8