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Windows Vista My laptop wont hibernate since doing disc cleanup

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  1. 2007/08/23
    Mel

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    Hi there, im back with another problem. I just recently bought an acer aspire 3680 which comes with Vista home basic. i did the first disc cleanup earlier, and since then I cannot hibernate. I did find the cmd powercfg.exe command and tried it - didnt work. I think i deleted the ability to hibernate.

    i tried a system restore but it wouldnt work because, well, its vista. so my questions are, how can i get hibernation back? and, how can i keep hibernation available when i do a disc cleanup in the future? should I downgrade to XP until Vista becomes more stable and reliable?
     
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  2. 2007/08/23
    Evan Omo

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  4. 2007/08/24
    Mel

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    i tried that stuff with no help. but the thing is, hibernate was there, and i had been using it regularly. Once i decided to do a disc cleanup to see if i could get it to run faster, it was gone.

    the powercfg commands wont even recognize on my laptop either. the only thing i can think of is a system restore but that wont work. is there any way to undo a disc cleanup?

    why on earth would the hibernate option be deletable anyway? Isnt that kind of... not logical?

    ETA: my laptop also does not support hybrid sleep, so i know thats not it either... i tried to find hybrid sleep to no avail, but was hoping some spyware or something had enabled it & it was a quick fix.

    (the error when running through dos that i get is "'powercfg' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file" )
     
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  5. 2007/08/24
    Evan Omo

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    Hi again Mel. Thats actually very strange that command prompt didn't recognize the command. :confused: Did you right click command prompt and then choose run as administrator then try the powercfg /hibernate on command? The only reason that I can think of is that you didn't type the command correctly. Did you put a space between powercfg and the /? :confused: Anyway when I got Windows Vista I ran disk cleanup and I also deleted the hibernation file without realizing it. :eek: I ended up putting in that command in command prompt and my ability to hibernate was restored. If you are able to hibernate again I would run disk cleanup but uncheck the hibernation file cleaner. The purpose of that option being there is only for computers that don't have the ability to hibernate. I have left the hibernation file cleaner option unchecked in disk cleanup ever since I ran into that problem and I have never had any issues with hibernation. I hope I answered some of the questions you had. :) Let me know if you still can't hibernate. :rolleyes:
     
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    Arie

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    That's weird. When you type powercfg in the Start Search (the search box on the Start Menu), do you get any listed?
     
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    Arie

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    Because a LOT of people switch off hibernation, and the hibernate file isn't removed, it has to be removed 'by hand'.

    If you read the description in Disk Cleanup, it clearly states:

     
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    Mel

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    so, the latest is that i was able to get back hibernation, it wouldnt work before for some reason, but i switched my start menu away from classic view (to the new vista view), and then searched for cmd (originally, i did it through command prompt, which i would think are the same anyway) i was able to get hibernation back.

    so now, what files should i NOT remove during disc cleanup to keep the hibernation option available? is it a separate heading? or is it within windows temp files or something like that? (im afraid of running it again & losing the option again)
     
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  9. 2007/08/24
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    Evan Omo

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    Like I said in my last post, if you are able to hibernate again run disk cleanup but uncheck the hibernation file cleaner option. Then disk cleanup won't delete the hibernation file. :)
     
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    Arie

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    At least in my Vista, deleting the hibernation file is not selected by default.
     
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  12. 2007/08/25
    Mel

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    how did you do that? or was it just like that?
     
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  13. 2007/08/25
    Arie

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    It was the default. I've never run disk cleanup on Vista before you mentioned your problem.
     
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