Hibernation

[Fredrat]

I know you can add hibernate to the WinXP shutdown menu but I'm wondering if it can be added to the Media Center shutdown menu. Anybody know?

[CoffeeFiend]

S3 sleep (system standby) mode would also give you great power savings, and also be back from that power saving mode quicker. It's much like hibernate, but keeps the RAM content refreshed (the only thing powered on, wasting only a couple watts), so no need to load the contents from disk first.

[bphlpt]

Yes, I believe you should be able to add the hibernation option to the shutdown menu of MCE the same way that you enable in in XP.

Cheers and Regards.

[beanpole.b]

I know you can add hibernate to the WinXP shutdown menu but I'm wondering if it can be added to the Media Center shutdown menu. Anybody know?

Just put this in a notepad document and save it as a reg file. Note that this doesn't add hibernate to Media Center the program, but adds it to the Shut down menu (start - turn off computer)

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System\Shutdown]

"ShowHibernateButton"=dword:00000001

Or you can go into regedit and locate to the address and add a new DWORD Value called ShowHibernationButton set to 1.

Also, make sure hibernation is set by going into control panel - power options - hibernate

Edited July 12, 2008 by beanpole.b