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I recently updated my HP Laptop from Windows 7 to Windows 8 Pro.
When running Win 7 I had the option to hibernate my machine but that option is missing in Win 8. Selecting the 'Power' button from the 'Settings' option in the Charms Bar only gives me the option to 'Sleep', 'Shutdown' or 'Restart'.
How do I get the Hibernate option to appear?
Have you installed the display drivers for your laptop? If not then install them and restart the laptop and you will see the option of Hibernate there. – avirk – 2012-10-28T03:57:11.907
I did have some devices in device manager without drivers including the GFX card, and I thought that was the cause. But the Hibernate option was still missing even after installing the correct drivers and restarting. – mcqwerty – 2012-10-28T15:31:57.257
I don't think you'll need hibernation in Windows 8. Fast Startup is basically Hibernation. – pratnala – 2012-10-28T15:39:55.280
1@PratyushNalam Have you tried it? Shutdown only hibernates the kernal session but all user application sessions are closed. Hibernate hibernates the whole session and allows you to pick up where you left off exactly like hibernate in Win 7. – mcqwerty – 2012-10-28T15:57:39.907
Yeah but I find sleep performance to be much better. Resume is instantaneous, so I disabled Hibernate in fact. Also, for me hibernate is slower than fast startup. I don't know why – pratnala – 2012-10-28T16:45:50.937
1Hibernate should be slower than fast startup because it is restoring the state of all the active applications. Some people externalize their brain's state by using the computer's open apps/windows/tabs aggressively. Having to restore all of that state after a "fast startup" would still involve a loss of time overall and/or lost information/tasks. – Malachi – 2012-10-29T18:56:51.390
Agree with Malachi. Hibernate's only use case isn't being faster than typical startup. Sometimes, you need to turn off the power buy maintain your work session exactly as is. I started using it much less on Win7 with an SSD when it got slower than startup, but I still frequently hibernate. – Nick – 2012-11-01T18:04:07.340