Hibernate computer with a timeout from command line on Windows 7

Question

I am trying to hibernate my computer from the command. I was using shutdown /s /t 20 to shutdown the the computer. I change /s to /h to hibernate and now it just returns the usage text as if it doesn't recognise what I have entered. In this is does say

/h         Hibernate the local computer.

Is there something else that I need to use with /h to get it to hibernate?

Answer 1

I don't believe you can set a time for hibernation, unfortunately.

Try:

ping -n 20 127.0.0.1 > NUL 2>&1 && shutdown /h /f

The ping is a hackish way of delaying the action. -n 20 should wait for 20 seconds.

(the double && will allow you to do a Ctrl+C to cancel the operation, but if you use a simple & then pressing Ctrl+C will only break the timer and then continue to shut down)

Answer 2

You could also consider using "timeout" or "waitfor" commands in a similar manner.

timeout /t 20 /NOBREAK > NUL && shutdown /h

or

waitfor NUL /t 20 || shutdown /h

More here: How do I make a batch file wait / sleep for some seconds?

Answer 3

I use the following:

sleep 20 && shutdown /h /f

Or this if I want it off at a certain time:

At 22:30 shutdown /h /f

Answer 4

I think that it complains about time. Just put shutdown /h and it should work.

Answer 5

Of course you can set TIME for hibernation.

If You really want to hibernate your computer after a specific time, all you need to do is to enter this command below into the cmd i.e:

    timeout /t 36000 /nobreak & shutdown /h

Now the computer will start to count down from 36000 to 0 before it will hibernate. But you should note that you can change 36000 into any number of seconds that suits you.

Answer 6

If you have cygwin it's very simple: sleep 45m && shutdown /h

You can instruct sleep in minutes, hours, seconds and even days. Check out this answer about sleep.

Answer 7

I was also searching for timed hibernate for long time. Finally I made the following solution:

Create a bat file as below:

timeout /t %1 /nobreak && shutdown /h

Suppose it is saved in C:\hibernate.bat

Then open Run command (Win+R) and run the bat file with the timeout seconds as below:

C:\hibernate.bat [timeout]

Answer 8

Did you try the Windows Task Scheduler? If you have the script you can set it to run at a certain time - this should answer the time delay question.

Answer 9

i always use this:

shutdown -h

Answer 10

Instead of / use -.

Use the below command in the CMD as admin priv and test

shutdown -h