Add a "hibernate" command to the Win8 power option.

Before starting the body content, briefly explain the purpose of sleep
and the difference between it and sleep
. According to the official explanation, hibernation and sleep are power-saving states in Windows systems. Sleep is mainly designed for laptops. The computer that goes into hibernation saves the open documents and programs to the hard disk, and then shuts down the computer. Sleep is to save work and settings in memory and consume a small amount of power (remaining memory data retention), similar to the pause in video playback.

Win8 Power Options default not sleep

In all power-saving states in Windows, hibernation electricity use At least, for laptop users, sleep is the most appropriate if you don't use the computer for a while but don't want to shut down. However, in Windows 8, you will find that the hibernate option is not found. Is it because Microsoft canceled this feature? No, Win8 just doesn't enable it by default, but we can still display it so that it can be used when needed.

How to operate?

First open the control panel. Under Win8, you can use the [Win+X] key combination on the keyboard to call out the WinX menu in the lower left corner and then select the control panel. You can also right click on the blank space in the start screen. , then click <;All Apps", find the Control Panel under "Windows System";

Go to “Systems & Security" Categories, click “Power Options” Change the function of the power button>;

Enter the control panel

The setting options here are locked by default, so to modify, first unlock, in the window Click above “change the currently unavailable settings” unlock.

Unlock the setting lock

After unlocking, the third item in the "Shutdown setting" in the window will be hibernated and displayed in the <quo;Power & rsquo; menu” , and finally click “Save Changes” Exit.

Showing the hibernation option

After the modification, whether it is the system power option or pressing Alt+F4, the “Hibernate” option has been added.

You can choose to sleep now