Enabling and initiating Hibernate

Sometimes it's usefull to hibernate, to preserve a windows-session.

But what do you do if hibernate isn't enabled yet?

First of all, if hibernate isn't turned on yet, you need to have sufficient space on your systemdrive (mostly C:). You need at least the same amount of space as the size of your RAM. A file called hiberfil.sys will be created there.

1. open up a console (Run/cmd.exe)
2. :> powercfg -h on OR powercfg -hibernate on
3. leave the console window open, as we will need it again

Now that you activated hibernate, there is still no option for it under shut down. In that case just execute the following command:

1. %windir%\System32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState