Hibernate windows from command line

by admin on December 30, 2011

We can hibernate a Windows computer from command prompt using shutdown command. Shutdown command has various switches for different operations like shutdown, reboot, hibernate, log off etc. The command for hibernating windows computer is given below.

shutdown /h

This works on all Windows versions – XP, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2003 and Server 2008.

This command can be used in a batch script file also. Once the command is triggered, we can’t abort the hibernation operation.

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