Hibernate is a power-saving feature that saves your machine’s state (including unsaved documents, program states, etc.) onto your primary hard disk instead of onto the RAM (as sleep does.) The tradeoff is slower resume time but less power draw.
The first step is to disable hybrid sleep and/or hibernation on your computer. How to Disable Hybrid Sleep/Hibernation in Windows Schedule your computer to sleep and wake at a certain time. Create a script file (.bat) to wake your computer.Ĥ.
Create a script file (.bat) to put your computer to sleep.ģ. But if you are on a plain vanilla Windows desktop, you may want just to go ahead and do it natively. There are third-party power management programs that do this, many of which come bundled with laptops. Schedule Windows to Sleep and Wake Automatically