Showing posts with label enable hibernation on windows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label enable hibernation on windows. Show all posts

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