Solved Hibernate in windows 8.1 Asus T200

Hi there,

Looking to enable hibernate on my new 8.1 laptop. I use on battery power a lot, and need the machine to use as little power as possible when I close the lid, not worried about a slightly longer start up...

I have googled and turned up repeated pages telling me to enable "hibernate" or in some instances "hybrid sleep", in my shutdown settings. However, my machine does not seem to have this option! Several of these pages had pictures of the same menu I am viewing, but mine just doesn't have the hibernate option. The options I have are: "Turn on fast startup" "Sleep" "Lock".

Machine is Asus T200TA, with 4GB Ram, running 8.1 64bit.

Many thanks!

[h=3]Turn on hibernation:[/h]You can enable hibernation by executing the below command from elevated administrator command prompt. Right click Windows start icon and choose Command Prompt (Admin)
[h=3]Turn off hibernation[/h]Hibernation can be disabled by running the below command.

I think that, according to the article, you have to do the pwrconfig setting/command first.

Try these links.....
---Show hibernation & Lock options
Hibernate - Enable or Disable - Windows 7 Help Forums

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorial...u-add-remove-sleep-hibernate-windows-8-a.html

---show hibernation - Choose what the power buttons do.
How to enable hibernation on a computer with Windows 8 preloaded - Lenovo Support (US)

I think that Brink on here, and on sevenforums- has a tutorial or two about this.

HTH

dperecky said:

I think that, according to the article, you have to do the pwrconfig setting/command first.

Try these links.....
---Show hibernation & Lock options
Hibernate - Enable or Disable - Windows 7 Help Forums

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorial...u-add-remove-sleep-hibernate-windows-8-a.html

---show hibernation - Choose what the power buttons do.
How to enable hibernation on a computer with Windows 8 preloaded - Lenovo Support (US)

I think that Brink on here, and on sevenforums- has a tutorial or two about this.

HTH

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I have been through these articles already... But, on re-reading them now, one interesting thing has come up: If I run shutdown.exe /h in command prompt my computer will hibernate... as in post 1 here: No hibernate option in Windows 8.1 Pro tablet even after "powercfg -h on" - Super User post 2 suggests a fix with a .reg file, but I have no idea what this means or how to implement it.

fixed it....

adding a reg file sounded hard, but wasn't really....

congrats!