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 * How To Enable Hibernate Mode in Windows 7 **

You may find that Hibernate is grayed out when they click the small arrow icon placed next to the “Shut Down” option in Windows Start menu

To solve this issue, follow these simple steps.

1. Click **Start** and type **power options** in Windows search box. When the results appear, click the **Power Option**s link:



2. This will open the **Power Options** section of the Windows 7 control panel. On the currently selected “power plan” settings, choose **Change plan settings**

on the right-hand side of the window



3. In the next window, select **Change advanced power settings**



4. This will open a small window, where you can check whether the hybrid mode is turned off or not.

Click the small arrow next to the **Sleep** option and see whether the **Allow hybrid sleep** setting is ON or OFF.

Case A: If you see that the **Allow hybrid sleep** option is visible but it is turned off, change it to **ON**.

That is it, you have just enabled the hibernation feature in Windows 7, now simply click Windows start menu and then click the small arrow next to the **Shut Down** button and you will see the option to Hibernate Windows 7.



Case B:. If you see that there is no option for **Allow Hybrid Sleep** in the power options section, then you have to check whether your computer supports hibernation and whether it has the latest legacy drivers installed.



Follow the simple steps mentioned below:

1. Type **cmd** in Windows search box, right click the command prompt icon, and choose **Run as administrator**



2. This will open the command prompt window, now type the following command without the quotes

“**powercfg /hibernate on”**



When you are done typing the above command, click **Enter** key you may see a window displaying a message:



You may see the following message,
 * There are one or more legacy drivers installed, an internal system component has disabled hibernation**

In that case, you cannot turn on the hibernation feature anymore. This is because Windows is unable to find the corresponding legacy drivers that are required for the hibernation to work.

You have to ask your computer vendor for the latest drivers, or you may also want to visit your computer manufacturer’s website and download the drivers and install them. Once all the latest drivers are in place, you can follow the exact same steps mentioned above and turn on the hibernate feature in Windows 7.

The article was written for Windows 7, but the same is also true for Vista.