Tip 1: sleep mode in Windows 8 not working - Is it switched on?
First of all, you can control whether the sleep state is actually switched on.
- Open the command prompt as Administrator and type "powercfg -a" (without the quotation marks). In the edition of the text, attention should, first and foremost, the Status of the sleep.
- Alternatively, you can check whether the system drive is C:\ the file "hiberfil.sys" is. This is not available, you can assume that the idle state is disabled. Make sure you can see hidden files with your file Manager can see.
Hibernation was not enabled
Tip 2: Disable hybrid sleep mode
Should be turned on on your System the hybrid standby mode, the phone does not hibernate. In this case, you must disable the hybrid sleep mode:
- Open the control panel. There, select the "power options".
- In addition to the currently used power plan, click on "change plan settings". Then select "change Advanced power settings".
- Open the "save energy". There you will find the Option "hybrid sleep" option. Turn them off (if available) for the battery - and mains operation. Your Changes, accept with the OK-Button.
Hybrid sleep mode, disable
Tip 3: space for the hibernation on the system partition free
To be able to hibernate, you need to make sure that the system partition is sufficient free space. Windows 8 stores the full contents of memory in the file hiberfil.sys . As a rule, the following applies: The file is about as large as your RAM. Your System has 4 GB of RAM, you will need for the rest 4 GB of free hard disk space.
Tip 4: Windows 8 hibernation Wake
Also, the function for the state of rest from it can help, and again:
- Run the command prompt of Windows 8 as an Administrator from.
- Now type the command "powercfg-h off" (without the quotation marks) and confirm it with Enter.
- Next, you type the command "powercfg-h on" (without the quotation marks) and then press button again to Enter.
- Perform a restart of the system.
The hibernate reactive
Tip 5: Set the system partition active
As mentioned in tip 3 above, saves Windows 8 at the time of activation of the hibernation the entire contents of memory in the file hiberfil.sys. However, this can only be achieved if the system partition is marked as active:
- Click with the right mouse button on the Start Button in the taskbar and from the context menu, select "disk management".
- Click with the right mouse button on the boot partition, so the Partition on which Windows 8 is. After that, select "mark Partition as active".
Partition mark active
Tip 6: Detailed insights into the energy-saving function
Even if you have followed all the tips and hibernate still does not work, you must not give up yet. Windows 8 is a practical tool that will automatically check the functions of energy-saving options and possible sources of error tracking.
- Run the Windows command prompt as Administrator from.
- Type in the command prompt "powercfg.exe -energy" (without the quotation marks). Thereafter, an analysis of the energy-saving features of Windows 8 starts. Until the Test is completed, you should use neither your mouse to your keyboard.
- After about a Minute, the test program stores in the directory "c:\windows\system32" the file "energy-report.html" that you can open in your web browser. You should receive an error message, copy the file to a different directory on your hard disk.
- Pay particular attention to entries in the "Troubleshooting" section. Here you will find for example applications or to the PC connected devices, the hinder sleep.
Energy Efficiency Diagnostic Report
Incidentally, you can also with a Shortcut in the sleep switch. How to do this, we will explain in our next practice tip.
