Vista - How to HIBERNATE when lid is closed?

In Control Panel >> Power >> What to do when lid is closed, I
see three choices: DO NOTHING, SLEEP, and SHUT DOWN.

SLEEP seems to be 'Standby'.

My preference is that the unit would HIBERNATE when lid is
closed. Is that possible?

"notaguru" <notaguru-obvious@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Try enabling hibernation and see if that brings up that option. I cannot
test it from this XP laptop right now:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920730

ss.

You may have disabled hibernate feature (possibly using Disk Cleanup). See:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;928897

for how to reenable it.

Michael

"notaguru" <notaguru-obvious@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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To both: Thanks!!

That fixed it. This laptop Hibernates in about five seconds, but
takes much longer to go to Standby or Shut Down.




Michael wrote:

By default in Vista, Hibernate is not directly available. Sleep is a hybrid
of what you used to know as Standby (low power state, memory content
preserved) and Hibernate (memory content stored to disk, system powers
down.) Vista's sleep with copy the memory image to disk, then enter the low
power state, so that you can quickly resume. After a set time of
inactivity, the system will then power down, losing the memory state in RAM,
but be able to restart quickly from the hibernation condition.

If you want Sleep (as in Standby) and Hibernate as separately available
actions, you need to turn off "Allow Hybrid Sleep" in the advanced power
settings. You can configure this separately for on AC or on Battery
conditions.

Val


"notaguru" <notaguru-obvious@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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In Control Panel >> Power >> What to do when lid is closed, I
see three choices: DO NOTHING, SLEEP, and SHUT DOWN.

SLEEP seems to be 'Standby'.

My preference is that the unit would HIBERNATE when lid is
closed. Is that possible?

it's possble if you have it enabled, you have to go to the power setup in
control panel then go to advanced power schemes and you should find it
there, if you want to enable hibernate there is command to enter in cmd but
you have to search in windows site and they didn't make it easy to find

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