Something happened my hibernate mode/option

All of a sudden I cannot get my Vista box powers options mode to go to
hibernate. It's simply no longer listed as an option. It once was. Also no
"Hybrid sleep mode" listed as well. Once was.

Looking over the web I see people use the cmd line with:-

powercfg -h on

When I do this I get a message:-
"You do not have permission to enable or disable the Hibernate feature."


I am the only user and I have administer status. What gives?

"John Monahan" <> wrote in message
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> All of a sudden I cannot get my Vista box powers options mode to go to
> hibernate. It's simply no longer listed as an option. It once was. Also no
> "Hybrid sleep mode" listed as well. Once was.
>
> Looking over the web I see people use the cmd line with:-
>
> powercfg -h on
>
> When I do this I get a message:-
> "You do not have permission to enable or disable the Hibernate feature."
>
>
> I am the only user and I have administer status. What gives?
>
>


When you go to open the Commend Prompt, right click it and select "Run as
Administrator". You'll be able to use the powercfg command then. At least,
it worked for me.

John,
Following is paraphrased from:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928897


The hybrid sleep feature and the hibernation feature may become unavailable after you use the Disk Cleanup Tool

This problem occurs when the Disk Cleanup Tool disables the hibernation file. The hibernation file must be enabled to access the hybrid sleep feature and the hibernation feature in Windows Vista.

When the hibernation file is disabled, and the hybrid sleep feature is enabled, a backup of open programs and open files will not be saved to the disk when you use the sleep feature in Windows Vista. Additionally, if the computer loses power while the Windows is in sleep mode, open programs and open files will not be recovered, and any unsaved work will be lost.

Enable the hibernate feature
Run the powercfg -h on command at a command prompt to enable the hibernate feature and the hybrid sleep feature.

Click Start, click All Programs, and then click Accessories.
Right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator. If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type the password, or click Continue.

Type powercfg -h on, and then press ENTER.

Type Exit to close the command prompt window.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
karl

"John Monahan" <> wrote in message news:OwD$...
All of a sudden I cannot get my Vista box powers options mode to go to
hibernate. It's simply no longer listed as an option. It once was. Also no
"Hybrid sleep mode" listed as well. Once was.

Looking over the web I see people use the cmd line with:-

powercfg -h on

When I do this I get a message:-
"You do not have permission to enable or disable the Hibernate feature."


I am the only user and I have administer status. What gives?

Yep! that did it Thanks.

"Sinner" <> wrote in message
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>
> "John Monahan" <> wrote in message
> news:OwD$...
>> All of a sudden I cannot get my Vista box powers options mode to go to
>> hibernate. It's simply no longer listed as an option. It once was. Also
>> no "Hybrid sleep mode" listed as well. Once was.
>>
>> Looking over the web I see people use the cmd line with:-
>>
>> powercfg -h on
>>
>> When I do this I get a message:-
>> "You do not have permission to enable or disable the Hibernate feature."
>>
>>
>> I am the only user and I have administer status. What gives?
>>
>>
>
>
> When you go to open the Commend Prompt, right click it and select "Run as
> Administrator". You'll be able to use the powercfg command then. At
> least, it worked for me.
>

Run the command from an "elevated" Command Prompt. To open an elevated
Command Prompt, click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories,
right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator.

How to open an elevated Command Prompt in Windows Vista:
http://www.winhelponline.com/article...ows-Vista.html

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog
Windows® Troubleshooting: http://www.winhelponline.com


"John Monahan" <> wrote in message
news:OwD$...
> All of a sudden I cannot get my Vista box powers options mode to go to
> hibernate. It's simply no longer listed as an option. It once was. Also no
> "Hybrid sleep mode" listed as well. Once was.
>
> Looking over the web I see people use the cmd line with:-
>
> powercfg -h on
>
> When I do this I get a message:-
> "You do not have permission to enable or disable the Hibernate feature."
>
>
> I am the only user and I have administer status. What gives?
>
>

"John Monahan" wrote:

> All of a sudden I cannot get my Vista box powers options mode to go to
> hibernate. It's simply no longer listed as an option. It once was. Also no
> "Hybrid sleep mode" listed as well. Once was.

when hybrid sleep mode is enabled, the hibernate command is not listed in
the start menu, because hybrid sleep also saves all data to hard disk into
hibernation file like in pure hibernation mode.
Hybrid sleep mode is listed as just "sleep" but it has the hybrid behavior
(standby+hibernate)