On 03/09/2016 14:53, Pfsszxt wrote:
On 9/2/2016 9:55 PM, Paul wrote:
Pfsszxt wrote:
My win7 has the nice "sleep mode" for temporary
shut-downs.
My wife has a win 8.1 computer fronted with Start 8
(set to simulate win 7). But we find no "sleep"
option. Is this option available in Win 8.1?
If so, how do I make it happen?


It's pretty well exactly the same as Windows 10,
and uses Control Panels : Power Options. But
it takes a bit if clicking to find stuff.

https://s12.postimg.org/5hllyi5y5/win81_power.gif

The Hibernate box would not be in that picture,
if you do

powercfg /hibernate off

as that removes C:\hiberfil.sys . So the Power Options
dialog isn't a complete solution. Sometimes, you
actually have to "check what is blocking sleep"
for example, if the tick box is missing. The
tick boxes are available, if elements of ACPI
have not been botched by the user (that's me :-) )
So some of my OSes, have fewer tick boxes at
the bottom than others.

Paul

Thank you.
hardly seems worth the effort !

As I see it the main reason to disable hibernation and get rid of
hiberfil.sys is that it's a huge file and it wastes a lot of space if
you don't really need it.

Also hibernation, and coming of of hibernation are often very slow on
modern PCs with many GB of RAM.

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