Hibernate is missing in Windows XP
Not only is hibernate hidden from the shutdown/log-off options in Windows XP, it is also disabled by default. The procedure to enable hibernate is not difficult, but it took a while to figure out where the configuration settings were hidden. Hopefully posting it here will save someone some time.
Before you logout out of Windows, a window appears giving you an array of shutdown, standby, hibernate… options. Depending on your configuration, this may be a set of 3 buttons or a dropdown set of options. If you see a set of 3 buttons, holding shift at the window should display hibernate as an option. If the hibernate option does not display, go to the section below about Enabling Hibernate. If you see a window with a dropdown set of options and hibernate is not one of them, go to the section below about Enabling Hibernate.
Enabling Hibernate
- Go to the Control Panel > Power Options > Hibernate tab.
- Make sure Enable hibernation is checked.
- Click OK and hibernate should show up as one of your shutdown options.
Repetitively Enabling Hibernate
Maybe you have a lot of systems that require hibernation, or perhaps you’d like to include it in a set of scripts that you run when a system is built from scratch. You could run this command from the command prompt, or put it in a batch file:
powercfg /H:ON
Hope this helps!
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Using TZEdit on Windows SP, SP2, SP3 for Daylight Saving Time (DST)
If you’ve got some older systems or a new netbook that can’t quite handle Vista , you might be hanging onto Windows XP longer than you thought. Out of the box, XP and the new DST changes don’t get along. As a result of The U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005, the United States (that’s where I am) has an extended daylight saving period that lasts 3-4 weeks longer than in years prior to 2007. But there’s a fix!
There’s a handful of ways to update your computer so that it supports the new DST dates: downloading an EXE update, manual registry changes, TZEdit, and some others. For a single machine, I found the most straight-forward way to update your machine is through TZEdit.
- Download TZEdit.
- Run TZEdit.exe to extract it to the default directory (C:\Program Files\TZEDIT).
- Run C:\Program Files\TZEDIT\TZEdit.exe.
- The timezone configured on your machine should be automatically selected.
- Click the Edit button.
- Change the Start Day to the Second Sunday of March at 2:00am.
- Change the Last Day to the First Sunday of November at 2:00am.
- Click OK.
- I found to get the settings to stick I had to change time zones in the Date and Time Properties window (the window that pops up when you double-click the time in the tray). Change to some other time zone, and then change back to your original time zone.
- Now reboot.
- To test, change your date/time to the second Sunday of March at 1:59:59am. If all went well, you should “spring” forward to 3:00am.
If you’d like more technical information on more advanced configuration, jump over to Microsoft’s Help Page.
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