Fun one, the option to turn off hibernation via the GUI has been eliminated. I have a laptop with 4GB RAM and a 64GB SSD, so space is at somewhat of a premium. I never use hibernate (sleep works great) so I figure let’s disable it. You have to do this from the command line. Open a command line with administrator privs, and type:
powercfg -H off
Your hibernation file will immediately be freed and all hibernate options will disappear from power plans. Pretty obvious should be the way to turn that back on:
powercfg -H on
Here’s how to open a command line with administrator privs:
- Click Start followed by All Programs and then Accessories
- Oon the Accessories menu Right Click on the Command Prompt
- From the drop down menu, Click on the Run Administrator option