How to Enable Hibernation

The hibernate feature turns off your monitor and hard disk, saves everything in memory on disk, and turns off the computer. When you restart the computer, your desktop is restored exactly as you left it. To enable Hibernation, follow these steps:

1. 1. Go to Start - Settings - Control Panel.
2. 2. Click on Power Options icon.
3. 3. Click on the Hibernate tab.
4. 4. Check the Enable Hibernation Support checkbox.

The shutdown dialog box of Windows XP doesn’t offer any longer the hibernation button. To hibernate your computer follow thes steps:.

1. 1. Click Start - Turn Off Computer.
2. 2. Point the standby button and maintain the shift key pushed.
3. 3. A hibernation button appears, click it while still holding the shift key.

Note: To put your computer into hibernation, you must have a computer whose components and BIOS support this option.