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

[pstein]

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

 

[G Force]

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

assoc C:\hiberfil.sys

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

 

[pstein]

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

 

[G Force]

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.

 

[Ztruker]

powercfg /query will also tell you. Look for the data after:

Power Setting GUID: 9d7815a6-7ee4-497e-8888-515a05f02364 (Hibernate after)
GUID Alias: HIBERNATEIDLE
Minimum Possible Setting: 0x00000000
Maximum Possible Setting: 0xffffffff
Possible Settings increment: 0x00000001
Possible Settings units: Seconds
Current AC Power Setting Index: 0x00000000
Current DC Power Setting Index: 0x00000000

Both A/C and DC are set to 0 which means Hibernate is disabled.

 

[pasacioclux]

cmd : powercfg –availablesleepstates

 

[FrostJack980]

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

$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"
}

 

[SIW2]

powercfg /a