GUI lets me disable it, how do I enable it?

re: GUI lets me disable it, how do I enable it?

berillio — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:28:57 GMT

last thursday night I had few hours to try to remove vista to intall XP on a friend's laptop. When shrinking the Vista partition I found that there was a a large lump of "unmovable files" (as described by defrag in XP), whihc limited the amount of shrinking I could do, as they were placed between the 70Gb and 75Gb. I thought that it may be the hibernation file, I googled and found a page which refers to this page.

NOW, BEAR IN MIND that I had never seen vista until that night, I have two W2K pro and one XP system.

I think that I did start/Run "powercfg /hibernate off", which gave me an istantaneous flash (too quick to see anything but the flash) of a cmd box. Note that I did not use Ctrl+Shift+Enter at any time: that laptop has ONLY one user, so (if it works like XP), that user IS the administrator.

After this operation, the "unmovable files" where still in the same place, but given that many manufacturers place all sort of recovery data half hidden sometimes in invisble partitions (DELL cetrtainly was used to do that), I thought that maybe it could be some of those. I also shrunk the pagefile to 256Mb (the laptop has 3Gb of RAM), which also had no effect on that large block of "unmovable files".

I now ask myself if I really succeeded in removing the hibernation setting or if Vista has this "administrator mode" which needs to be invoked even if the user is the administrator (i.e. however many user there are, the administrator can only carry out "administrator operations" if the "administration mode" is invoked first); and considering that the laptop is still using Vista, if it is required to "re-enable" hybernation or not.

BTW I don't have direct access to the laptop anymore (my friend is gone back), so I cannot just search for HIBERFIL.SYS, but we communicate by YM and maybe we can still check and change few things.

Thanks for shedding some light on the matter and thank you in advance for the help you may provide.

re: GUI lets me disable it, how do I enable it?

Mallikarjuna — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:11:34 GMT

thanku

friend u helped me with this

otherwise i m in a mood to redo the installation of vista

once again thank u

re: GUI lets me disable it, how do I enable it?

FCP Trainee — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:51:33 GMT

hey that disable UAC was a total life-saver! I knew about the powercfg -h on but was totally stumped when I got the 'You do not have permission...' garble.I admit UAC sucks but its sound advice to re-enable once you've finished your task. You never know with microsoft its better to be safe than sorry.

re: GUI lets me disable it, how do I enable it?

Michael — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:08:14 GMT

All you have to do is go into the c drive and click on windows then go into system32 then find cmd.exe and right click on it and select run as administrator then type in powercfg -hibernate on and there you have it.

re: GUI lets me disable it, how do I enable it?

Kaz — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:38:25 GMT

Oh you star!!

I've been trying to fix this for months now, and this is the only solution that has worked!!

THANK YOU!!!!

re: GUI lets me disable it, how do I enable it?

Alun Jones — Sat, 12 May 2007 19:36:30 GMT

I would definitely advise against disabling UAC - after all, without UAC, you have no protected mode in Internet Explorer, and you have no prompts when a piece of software tries unexpectedly to use an admin-only operation.

I think disabling UAC should only be used if you're going to engage in a marathon session of installing software onto a machine - and after you're done, re-enable it.

But I did find out why I got no right-click menu for my Start menu.

re: GUI lets me disable it, how do I enable it?

natalie — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:01:11 GMT

problem solved! first get admin right by running "msconfig.exe" and at tab "tools" click "disable UAC" then click "launch" button. To enable hibernate run "powercfg -h on". Thanks for ur help! By the way, its good idea to keep disable UAC as its suck!

re: GUI lets me disable it, how do I enable it?

natalie — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:50:25 GMT

this page really help me. i was also playing stupid removing hibernate by disk-cleanup. But i cant believe that microsoft stupid enough to forget enable option. damn!

re: GUI lets me disable it, how do I enable it?

Bernie — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:53:16 GMT

Phew... I am so glad I found this page. I have been going mad for a few days trying to enable hibernate after I accidentally removed it because I opted to clean up the disc space use by hibernate. The Run as Administrator bit above helped me so running powercfg -h on worked. Thanks a lot Alunj

Bernie

re: GUI lets me disable it, how do I enable it?

Phil O'Serf — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:54:04 GMT

The push toward sleep mode becomes less gentle.

re: GUI lets me disable it, how do I enable it?

Alun Jones — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:17:25 GMT

Not there now - I can set several options from there, like what to do when the lid closes on the laptop, that kind of thing. I can even see several options that are still set to Hibernate - but if I select them, I am given the choice of Sleep and Shut Down.

You actually do have to run a command to turn hibernation on. No GUI.

re: GUI lets me disable it, how do I enable it?

Phil O'Serf — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:01:46 GMT

Can't you go to the power management control panel? That is where hibernation control has been before Vista.