Windows update removed HIBERNATE function

[Ed W]

My laptop is configured to automatically download and install Windows updates.  I may re-think that in light of recent developments.  Last week, a fresh load of...updates...removed the hibernate function.  When selected, it stores all your work and shuts the computer down completely.  As in, no power is used.  The sleep mode still requires some battery power, but since this laptop has been dropped several times, the battery no longer charges.  Hence, in sleep mode I lose everything.  grrrrr.

But here's a fix:

To make hibernation available, follow these steps:

   1. Click Start , and then type cmd in the Start Search box.
   2. In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt , and then click Run as Administrator .
   3. When you are prompted by User Account Control, click Continue .
   4. At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate on , and then press ENTER.
   5. Type exit , and then press ENTER to close the Command Prompt window.

It works!  I'd like to thank Microsoft for improving my computer by making it less functional and less responsive to MY needs.  And the next time I bump into Bill Gates, I'll punch him in the nose.

[custosnox]

I've got to ask, what version of windows are you using because I still have it on this computer. 

Also, I have heard that Gates got out of MS, sold his share of it.

[tigerlily]

Thank you I lost this function some time back and wondered what happened to it, seems like it did happen after I did some of my updates. I didn't think anything of it until I saw your post. I will try to get the hibernate function back on.

[Conan71]

I'm running Vista and updates have had a tendency to kill my sound driver from time to time. I get it back after a restart or two. I think I'm going to stop the auto updates myself.

[Ed W]

I've got to ask, what version of windows are you using because I still have it on this computer. 

Also, I have heard that Gates got out of MS, sold his share of it.

This one is a Toshiba running Vista Home Basic with Service Pack 2 installed.  My kids have another one with Vista and a third one with XP.  I'll have to check those too, not that it matters to my kids.

[Hoss]

I've got to ask, what version of windows are you using because I still have it on this computer.  

Also, I have heard that Gates got out of MS, sold his share of it.

Not true.   He is still the single largest stockholder in the company at 8 percent.  He may have sold off some of his shares, but he is still majority owner.  He did, however, get out of the day-to-day running of the company.  He also remains as a non-executive chairman

[custosnox]

This one is a Toshiba running Vista Home Basic with Service Pack 2 installed.  My kids have another one with Vista and a third one with XP.  I'll have to check those too, not that it matters to my kids.

I'm running windows 7, which would explain a differance there.  I might get on my big computer that has vista 64 and run updates on it later to see if it does it there.  Makes you wonder why they do stuff like that

Not true.   He is still the single largest stockholder in the company at 8 percent.  He may have sold off some of his shares, but he is still majority owner.  He did, however, get out of the day-to-day running of the company.  He also remains as a non-executive chairman

It must have been the fact that he got out of the day-to-day that filtered down to me.  That's why I always qualify hearsay with "I heard" or something along those lines lol.  In any case, still takes the blame off of him on this one hehe

[Red Arrow]

If they gradually make your computer less and less useful or user friendly, you will be more likely to jump on the bandwagon when they introduce something new to fix all those problems.

[sgrizzle]

Windows sucks, which is awesome. Otherwise thousands of IT people like myself would be unemployed.

[Hoss]

Windows sucks, which is awesome. Otherwise thousands of IT people like myself would be unemployed.

They have made it quite a bit better with Windows 7.  I think Vista was to Windows 7 what Window ME was to Windows XP.  Ok, maybe on a lesser scale.  But MS has that 'Star Trek Movie' quality about their software releases.

About every other one sucks.

[nathanm]

I seem to recall holding down shift while clicking the 'shut down' option on the start menu will switch 'sleep' to 'hibernate.' It's been a long time since I've used Windows on my laptop, though.

As far as Microsoft being a fount of billable hours for me? Absolutely. A couple weeks back, one of my clients had the joy of spending a little over $20,000 (before our hours) to switch to windows on their servers and buy a new version of this software package they use that now only works with SQL server, rather than having the option for a shared-file database (which is often a bad idea, I grant) like it used to. This client has a little over 20 employees.

Thank you, Microsoft, for breaking Clarion databases in XPSP3. That was worth a lot more than the hardware failure another client had a few weeks back.

[Red Arrow]

About every other one sucks.

Now, if we just could predict which ones would suck before buying, we would be in good shape.

[custosnox]

Now, if we just could predict which ones would suck before buying, we would be in good shape.

Oh, I can do that.  If you have to pay for it, your paying too much, because they all suck, at least for the price they want to charge.

[Red Arrow]

Windows sucks, which is awesome. Otherwise thousands of IT people like myself would be unemployed.

Which works up to a point where someone else markets a better product.

Think American automobile manufacturers and all the mechanics they caused employment for.

[Red Arrow]

Oh, I can do that.  If you have to pay for it, your paying too much, because they all suck, at least for the price they want to charge.

I can't really disagree there.