Can't Find Hibernate in Windows? Here's How to Locate It

If you've noticed that Hibernate isn't as visible on Windows 11, that's not by accident.

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Remember Hibernate mode? For longtime PC users, Hibernate was a mainstay of the Windows shutdown menu, alongside the Restart, Sleep and Shut Down commands, as a way to save power without losing your work or exiting the operating system entirely.

But in recent years, as Windows 11 has become the most widely used version of the software and most modern laptops use solid-state hard drives, also called SSDs, Hibernate has quietly disappeared from most power-down menus. It's still in Windows 11 and can be enabled through the Power settings, but it no longer appears by default in the power menu alongside Sleep, Restart and Shut Down.

A recent blog post from the website XDA's Chandraveer Mathurpoints to the high amount of wear that Hibernate could put on SSDs as a potential...

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