Missing Hibernate option in Windows 10 Power Options?

Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad
Ibexoft
Published in
2 min readJul 12, 2018

Is Hibernate option missing from the Power Options in the Control Panel like in the screenshot below?

Here is a way to restore the missing Hibernate option back to the Power Options.

How to Fix?

Click the Cortana Search box on your taskbar, type cmd, right click on the Command Prompt and select Run as administrator.

Once the Command Prompt is launched, type in the following command to enable the Hibernate feature.

powercfg /hibernate on

Next, run the following command to change the hibernation file type to full.

powercfg /h /type full

Reboot your computer. You should see the Hibernate option show up in the Power Options now.

Enjoy!

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Muhammad Jawaid Shamshad
Ibexoft

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