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I am trying to hibernate my computer from the command. I was using shutdown /s /t 20 to shutdown the the computer. I change /s to /h to hibernate and now it just returns the usage text as if it doesn't recognise what I have entered.
In this is does say
/h Hibernate the local computer.
Is there something else that I need to use with /h to get it to hibernate?
I don't believe you can set a time for hibernation, unfortunately.
Try:
ping -n 20 127.0.0.1 > NUL 2>&1 && shutdown /h /f
The ping is a hackish way of delaying the action. -n 20 should wait for 20 seconds.
(the double && will allow you to do a Ctrl+C to cancel the operation, but if you use a simple & then pressing Ctrl+C will only break the timer and then continue to shut down)
> NUL 2>&1 part will prevent any output from the ping (for more see related question).
Oct 3, 2019 at 4:38
You could also consider using "timeout" or "waitfor" commands in a similar manner.
timeout /t 20 /NOBREAK > NUL && shutdown /h
or
waitfor NUL /t 20 || shutdown /h
More here: How do I make a batch file wait / sleep for some seconds?
false in the first condition and jump to shutdown command directly.
Jun 14, 2018 at 15:43
waitfor NUL /t 20 && shutdown /h instead.
I use the following:
sleep 20 && shutdown /h /f
Or this if I want it off at a certain time:
At 22:30 shutdown /h /f
At 22:30 shutdown /h /fin cmd prompt , i got a message like access denied but i'm the admin in my pc. awaiting for your respose
I think that it complains about time. Just put shutdown /h and it should work.
Of course you can set TIME for hibernation.
If you really want to hibernate your computer after a specific time, all you need to do is to enter this command below into the cmd. i.e:
timeout /t 36000 /nobreak && shutdown /h
Now the computer will start to count down from 36000 to 0 before it will hibernate. But you should note that you can change 36000 into any number of seconds that suits you.
If you have cygwin it's very simple: sleep 45m && shutdown /h
You can instruct sleep in minutes, hours, seconds and even days. Check out this answer about sleep.
I was also searching for timed hibernate for long time. Finally I made the following solution:
Create a bat file as below:
timeout /t %1 /nobreak && shutdown /h
Suppose it is saved in C:\hibernate.bat
Then open Run command (Win+R) and run the bat file with the timeout seconds as below:
C:\hibernate.bat [timeout]
ping, or redirecting timeout to NUL), it's practical.
Jan 9, 2020 at 18:24
Did you try the Windows Task Scheduler? If you have the script you can set it to run at a certain time - this should answer the time delay question.
i always use this:
shutdown -h
If you are using PowerShell or have the Windows terminal as your default command-line interface then this is the only solution that has worked for me:
sleep 30 | shutdown /h /f
Of course you can change 30 to whatever amount of seconds you would like.
sleep 30 | shutdown /h worked fine for me. Also, hibernation needs to be enabled, in order for this command to work.
| pipeline operator (PowerShell 7), but works correctly using the && pipeline operator: sleep 30 && shutdown /h
Here is a VBScript that will prompt for the number of seconds before hibernation:
Dim intSeconds,wshShell
intSeconds = InputBox("Enter number of seconds to wait","Hibernate timer")
Wscript.Sleep intSeconds
Set WshShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
WshShell.Run "shutdown.exe -h -f"
Instead of / use -.
Use the below command in the CMD as admin priv and test
shutdown -h
