Hibernate is more or less a similar function to sleep. It differs primarily in the fact that during sleep, temporary information about the state of the system is saved to RAM, and during hibernation on the hard disk.

Therefore, restarting the computer after sleep takes much less time, because all data is restored immediately from RAM, although in the event of a temporary power failure, the data from RAM will not be restored and the system will start in the traditional way.

It is worth using the hibernation function if you want to be 100% sure that your computer will be restored to the state in which you turned it off. However, if you are sure that the battery in your laptop is charged or you are not afraid of a temporary loss of power, then use the sleep function, because restoring the computer to work from this mode is much faster.

How to enable or disable hibernation in Windows 7?

By default, the hibernation feature in Windows is disabled, you can enable it in several ways. The easiest way to do this is via the command line.

Go to START or use the Windows shortcut key + R , and then type CMD .

A new window will appear in which you must enter the following command to enable hibernation.

powercfg / hibernate on

 

In case you want to turn off hibernation, just enter the following command.

powercfg / hibernate off

 

As you can see, enabling or disabling hibernation in Windows 7 is not complicated. It is also worth adding that by disabling hibernation on the C drive: we will save approximately 5GB of free space.