How to see from commandline (!!!) if hibernation is on or off?

How can users check from commandline (!!!) if hibernation is currently on or off?

When I search through the Internet then thousands of articles describe how to turn it e.g. on e.g. by

powercfg -H on

But what if I just want to let Win just show the current state WITHOUT to change it?

Is there really no way of just checking it from command line (NOT by Control Panel)?

Peter

I have an SSD therefor I do not use Hibernation. It's a horrible idea.

To find out if the feature is enabled, the file must exist, hiberfil.sys

To find out if the file exists, its a hidden file, try


Or try

Code:

assoc C:\hiberfil.sys

then try it with quotes "C:\hiberfil.sys".

This is excatly NOT true!

An existing hiberfil.sys can be an old fragment file which is not cleaned up. Or it was restored from a previous file/folder tree restoration.

Furthermore I have seen three month old hiberfil.sys files although the system was reboot a couple of times in the meantime.
Very strange!

So again: I search for a cmdline hibernation state detection command

pstein said:

This is excatly NOT true!

An existing hiberfil.sys can be an old fragment file which is not cleaned up. Or it was restored from a previous file/folder tree restoration.

Furthermore I have seen three month old hiberfil.sys files although the system was reboot a couple of times in the meantime.
Very strange!

So again: I search for a cmdline hibernation state detection command

The possibility you described is slimmer than you think. If Hibernation was turned off properly, the hiberfil.sys will have been removed along with it.

I've read deeper into the help file. Here you go . Stay thirsty, my friend.

cmd : powercfg –availablesleepstates

pstein said:

How can users check from commandline (!!!) if hibernation is currently on or off?

When I search through the Internet then thousands of articles describe how to turn it e.g. on e.g. by

powercfg -H on

But what if I just want to let Win just show the current state WITHOUT to change it?

Is there really no way of just checking it from command line (NOT by Control Panel)?

Peter

if you visit your Shut Down menu, then right click the arrow to the right of that word, a pop-up menu appears. If Hibernate shows up on that menu, it's enabled/turned on; if it's absent from that menu, it's disabled/turned off.

or just enter this command to Powershell

HTML Code:

$hibernation = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_PowerManagementCapabilities | Select-Object HiberFilePresent

if ($hibernation.HiberFilePresent -eq $true) {
    Write-Host "Hibernation is on"
} else {
    Write-Host "Hibernation is off"
}