Sleep Hibernate

Sleep

• Sleep is a power-saving state that allows a computer to quickly resume full-power operation (typically within several seconds) when you want to start working again
• Sleep puts your work and settings in memory and draws a small amount of power

Hiberate

• Hibernation is a power-saving state designed primarily for laptops
• Hibernation puts your open documents and programs on your hard disk, and then turns off your computer
• Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\HibernateEnabled

Hybrid sleep

• Hybrid sleep is designed primarily for desktop computers
• Hybrid sleep is a combination of sleep and hibernate
• When hybrid sleep is turned on, putting your computer into sleep automatically puts your computer into hybrid sleep
• Hybrid sleep is typically turned on by default on desktop computers

Reference

• Disable and enable hibernate
  • powercfg.exe /hibernate off
  • powercfg.exe /hibernate on
• https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/920730/how-to-disable-and-re-enable-hibernation-on-a-computer-that-is-running-windows