You will need admin permission and enough knowledge to change settings in the BIOS. Windows stores the state of the computer or hibernation into a file with the name hiberfil.sys. It would be best to ...

Hibernation is a feature of Windows that doesn't power off your office computer but instead puts the computer in a suspended mode after saving any open documents and settings for retrieval later. You ...

Windows 11/10 has the Hibernate mode enabled by default. This mode is a power-saving state for computers that run on batteries, e.g. Laptops. Hibernation puts the full current state of your PC to the ...

I just purchased a new HP tower for a client. The client is a gardening group (not all that computer savvy, most of them), used to XP, carefully trained in shutting down the computer. The computer is ...

Fix Microsoft Windows' inability to go into and come out of its sleep/hibernate modes, which can be related to the Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP) Client service. Dennis O'Reilly began writing ...

Fast startup is a handy feature on Windows that speeds up boot times by preventing the PC from shutting down completely. When enabled, it saves part of the system state to a hibernation file on your ...

We’ve reached a point where it can be assumed that most mid-range and higher desktops and higher-end notebooks will ship with solid-state drives as the default option. It’s a good thing, too, since ...

Windows has carried a lot of legacy features forward over the years, some of which are useful, others not so much. One of the most overlooked culprits eating away at your storage is Hibernation mode, ...