HELP! i'm a techno dunce.. how can I set my PC to hibernate? (and I tried to do it thru power options.........?

On the shutdown menu, you can press shift and click to enter hibernate, you should see standby change.

You also need to enable hibernation. Right click on desktop=>properties=>screensaver=>power=>hibernate=>enable

This is all I can think of. I think some computers might not be able to enter hibernation, I'm not sure.

Your right it's in power options in Control Panel

Choose the Hibernate Tab at the top

Start>Turn Off Computer>Stand By

okay if you are using a pc laptop just press the power button one time to put in hibernate mode or just close it if you have a mac just close it it's not that hard but if you are using a platform computer you cant hibernate yay that simple

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you are able to attempt to disable shutdown in Menu commence: commence -> Run -> gpedit.msc consumer ConfigurationAdministrative TemplatesStart Menu and Taskbar and set "get rid of and forestall get right of entry to to the close Down command" as enabled. then you extremely could make a shortcut on laptop to hibernate: RUNDLL32.EXE PowrProf.dll,SetSuspendState

Fn (bottom left corner) and F12 (top right corner). other way is to press start menu and if have XP press shut down button and options will come up and you can hibernate. if have vista press start menu and click the right arrow.

Is it a notebook with power saving features? If not, you will probably not have the option.

Most do this automatically every time they haven't been used in a while.

go to start turn off computer and then standby

hibernate is the exacte same thing as puting your comp to sleep