Enable or Disable Hibernate in Windows 10

Bullet100 · 03 Sep 2015

Awesome and very detailed guide yet again.

proudtobegreek · 23 Sep 2015

I could really need some help,tried via registry,dword is set to 0,merged the .reg file,made no difference,under power plans,hibernation and sleep is set to never,elevated command came up with error

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and hiberfil.sys still standing tall in Windows folder

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Any guidance,would be appreciated!

Brink · 23 Sep 2015

Hey mate, :)

Are you able to use any of the other options to disable hibernate?

You might see if restarting the computer may allow you to afterwards.

proudtobegreek · 23 Sep 2015

I think i covered all four of them,
registry manually
download and merge reg file
copy and paste powercfg -h off in elevated cmd
via power options-plan.
What process could be holding hiberfil to be accessed,as stated in TreeSize? (second snippet)

Brink · 23 Sep 2015

Odd. You might try in Safe Mode to see if it may be able to disable then.

proudtobegreek · 23 Sep 2015

Excellent thinking,restarted,didnt make it to safe mode (damn them SSD's are fast),gave it a shot whilst "wide open",no error,hibernation and its file gone.
Great to have you by our side,thanks for the quick response and help,bless you Admin!

Brink · 23 Sep 2015

Great news.

satchmo · 26 Sep 2015

Since I have 16 GB of physical memory, disabling hibernation saved me 12 GB of valuable space on my boot drive.

Thank you!

Brink · 26 Sep 2015

Glad it could help Satchmo. :)

satchmo · 26 Sep 2015

Thanks again.

I wonder whether hibernation is always turned on by default on all new installations.