Windows 8 Tip: Enable Hibernate option in Power menu

Hello everyone! On this post I will tell you the way to enable Hibernation in Windows 8. In default, in Windows 8 the Hibernate option is not available in Power menu. You will see just Sleep, Shut Down and Restart. You can enable Hibernate option easily by following the given steps below.

This is how the Power menu looks before enabling Hibernate.

Steps you need to follow to enable Hibernate:

1. Go to Notification area of the Taskbar

2. Right Click the battery indicator or power indicator

     You will get this:

3. Click the 'Power Options'

    You will see the Power Options as below:

4. Choose/Click any of the options at left panel: either 'Require a password on wakeup' or 'Choose what the power buttons do' or  'Choose what closing the lid does'

   

 You will get this now:

5.Click the 'Change settings that are currently unavailable'

    

Now, you can see that the  Shutdown settings is enabled for editing.

6. Check the 'Hibernate' option.

    Below is the view after checking Hibernate option:

7. Now, Click Save changes

8. You can close the power options now.

9. Below is the 'Power menu' after Hibernate is enabled.

Now, you can Hibernate your Windows 8 also. If you want to revert the change i.e. disable the Hibernate option then you have to follow the steps above and uncheck the Hibernate option in Shutdown settings.

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