USING WINDOWS 10 HIBERNATION SETTINGS

If you intend to be away from your Windows 10 computer for an extended amount of time you might choose to enable hibernation. Hibernation was designed for laptops and uses less power than sleep mode as it saves your current settings in a file onto your computer.

To see if your computer supports hibernation, you can go to the Power options control panel applet again and into the advanced settings as you did with sleep settings. From here, when you click on the Sleep category, you will see a Hibernate after option with a setting to specify total minutes to wait until hibernation.

If you don't see this option, your computer may not support hibernation mode. You will probably not see this if you are on a desktop.

Finally, if your computer does support hibernation you have the option to Hibernate when you click on Power in the Windows 10 start menu. However, this is not enabled by default.

To enable this option, head into Power options again and this time select Choose what the power button does.

Next, click on Change settings that are currently unavailable.

You should then have the option to check Hibernate

Once you do this, you'll then have the option to hibernate your laptop on the Power button menu.

As you can see, sleep and hibernation settings in Windows 10 are similar to previous versions but are just found a little differently.