Windows 10 Hibernation & Sleep Is A Little Wonkey

I always turn hibernation off.

Lately I've been fond of using a "sleep" shortcut.

%windir%System32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0

But on one PC it quit working.

How do you even tell if Hibernation is working anymore? CMD doesn't tell me anymore?

Speccy seems to know

But no hiberfil.sys file. Oops, it showed up eventually.

But shortcut works so I'm happy.

So, this was a PC where the sleep shortcut works and hibernation is off.

On the not working PC I turned on hibernation on and the shortcut worked.

Make Sleep Shortcut

To create a shortcut that will execute the sleep command:

• Right Click in the desired location (On the Desktop or in a folder)
• Select New -> Shortcut
• In the “Type the location of the item” field enter the following
• C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0
• Click Next
• This will create a shortcut with the name rundll32,
• Right Click the shortcut, select Rename and type in Sleep

 You can now open this shortcut whenever you desire to put your computer into sleep mode.

Note: You can replace the default icon with a Shutdown one by:

• Right Click the created shortcut, select Properties -> Change Icon

I like this little guy 

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