Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/CNET 3. To enable hibernate in Windows 10, open the Command Prompt again and type powercfg.exe /hibernate on and press the Enter key.

Windows 10 doesn't include Hibernate in the shut-down options by default, but it's easy enough to add it.

When stepping away from your Windows computer, you don't always need to shut it down. Windows also offers other powerful power-saving options — like Sleep and Hibernate — that allow you to ...