Do (some) netbooks not have Hibernate even as an optional setting under Windows 10?

Question

I recently bought my third netbook. This one is a Lenovo Ideapad 100S that came with Windows 10.

This setup does not include "Hibernate" as a possibility along with "Sleep", "Shut down", and "Restart".

I found an article online that says "Hibernate" is now an option that you have to enable and has instructions on how to do so.

But when I follow these instructions I do not get the new Hibernate option as illustrated. This is the dialog on my system after following the instructions:

My previous netbook was a HP Mini that came with Windows 7. In most ways that netbook was a little less powerful than the new netbook. Yet it still allowed me to user Hibernate even with a small internal drive and even with its RAM upgraded to the maximum possible 2G.

Is this a new limitation imposed upon netbooks by Microsoft? Or is there some reason it's not possible on this particular netbook? Or is there some extra step required to enable it on an Ideapad 100S?

Answer 1

First of all, right click to the Windows icon on the bottom left part of the screen, then go click run cmd as administrator. Then type in ( to cmd ) 'powercfg -h on' without the 's and press enter.

Then restart your PC and check the advanced power settings, feel free to ask anything anyway

Answer 2

You need to change the plan settings for your power plan. Under Power Options choose the plan, click on Change plan settings or something similar, from there Change advanced power settings and finally you should be able to scroll down to Hibernate.

See this video for clarifications - though for Windows 7, the settings are pretty similar. It's a roughly twelve minutes video, but the power plan settings are explained at 5:47 and the next few minutes.

Answer 3

Under Windows 10 I did not find any options to enable Hibernate as an option, but I did find something good enough.

Under Control Panel -> All Control Panel Items -> Power Options, then there's "Change plan settings" (mentioned in other answers).

From there, "Change advanced power settings" (possibly reachable via other routes).

In there, there's "+Battery" which I expanded to to find "+Critical Battery Action". Mine was already set to "Hibernate" but what I did was to then change "+Critical battery level" to 10% from 5% thinking maybe my machine had previously (the time it didn't hibernate properly) died while trying to hibernate.

After these steps, my machine seems to have hibernated properly over night.