Sunday, February 8, 2009

Desktop shortcut for Hibernating your WindOS

Create desktop shortcut for Hibernation

Before creating a shortcut please check that hibernation is enabled on your system.
To check hibernation is enabled or not check whether hiberfil.sys is present on your system drive mostly on c:\hiberfil.sys


Or the other way is that; go to Control panel => select Power options => select Hibernate Tab => and check for “Enable Hibernation” check box






For creating desktop shortcut for hibernation
Step 1: Right click on desktop: select New -> Shortcut



A window will appear asking for “Location of the Item”



Step 2: Copy paste or type following line in “Location of the Item” text box

%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState Hibernate


Step 3: Click on Next after you done; Give a proper name for your shortcut;
You can also change you Hibernate shortcut icon by selecting properties of shortcut

Now you are ready to use your Hibernate shortcut for your Windows

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It works great dude.

Thanks!!!