Leaving our computer “ON” is a very common practice done by almost everyone. Either we are in our workplace or at home. Many of us rush from our workplace during the last minute to board the shuttle. We don’t find adequate time to shut down the PC, though the best practice is to Shutdown the PC before leaving the workplace.

‘Hibernate Mode’ is most easiest way to solve this problem. This option provides you a better solution rather than to leave the PC on whole night. Simply switch your system to hibernate mode before you leave, and the state of all the applications running will be stored and once you switch ON your PC again, the previous session is restored.

It will take only 2 minutes of your once and will save tremendously for your better tomorrow.

Below are the steps to configure the Hibernate Option for WINDOWS XP users.

1) Right click on any empty area in your desktop and click New -> Shortcut

2) Paste the following text “rundll32.exe PowrProf.dll, SetSuspendState” into the text box and then click on Next.

3) Give an appropriate name such as “Hibernate” for this shortcut and click Finish.

4) Now you will see a folder named as Hibernate on your desktop, it would be fine if you change the icon for this folder to make it more appropriate and to function properly.

For this right click on the properties for folder “Hibernate” on your desktop.

6) Click on “Change Icon” button and then click on to “Browse”. You will be taken to the C:\sysroot\System32 folder.

7) Select the file powrprof.dll as shown.

You will see an alert as shown below. Click OK.

9) After then you will see a list of icons. Select the power icon or any other icon of your choice as shown.

10) Now you will see the shortcut named as Hibernate on your desktop.

All you need to do is that, just double-click this icon before leaving for the day and don’t forget to switch off your monitor. The next day you switch ON your pc, all your work will be restored. Just try this once, hibernate your PC and save Power.

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