Oct 18, 2024
Activate hibernation option in Windows
Sometimes the hibernate option is not available and must be activated via "powercfg /hibernate on" in an administrative shell. Then a checkbox becomes available in the Power Options.
For further details see https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-can-one-enable-hibernate-in-windows-11-since/2545b402-4884-45b3-9fda-459bce2333d7
Another helpful command is shutdown /h which does the hibernation via CLI
In case that hibernation is not enabled (error message "Hibernation is not enabled on this system. You must enable hibernation in order to use the -h option.(126)"), it helpt to run "powercfg /hibernate on"