Enable or disable the Hibernate option in Windows 10

Windows 10 comes with the Fast Startup feature which performs a hybrid shutdown of your PC by logging you out of your user account and then hibernating the PC when you click Shut Down. Because fast startup is essentially logoff+hibernation, the regular Hibernate option which turned off the PC without logging out is hidden and disabled by default. In this article, we will take a look at how you can enable the Hibernate option so you can hibernate without logging out and don't have to use the Shutdown option in Windows 10.

To enable the Hibernate option in Windows 10, follow these simple instructions:

1. Open Control Panel.
2. Go to System and Security \ Power Options
3. The following window will appear on the screen:
4. Click the 'Choose what the power buttons do' link on the left.
5. Now click on the 'Change settings that are currently unavailable' link to make the greyed out Shutdown options available.
6. Check the Hibernate option:

That's it. Now, when you open the Shutdown menu from the Start menu or from the Win+X Menu, you will see the 'Hibernate' option there.

To disable the Hibernate mode option, uncheck the Hibernate option you enabled earlier.

You can also turn off the PC's hibernate mode using the built-in command line powercfg tool. When hibernation is disabled, the 'Hibernate' option will be removed automatically from the Shutdown menu (This disables the Fast Startup feature as well).

1. Open an elevated command prompt.
2. To disable hibernation, enter the following command:

   powercfg hibernate off

3. To enable hibernation, enter the following command:

   powercfg hibernate on

The same can be done in Windows 8 and Windows 8.1.

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