Turn off Hibernation on an OS level

[SDH]

We use some fairly sophisticated hardware and software with our HP workstations, requiring compatibility with display software for DICOM-calibrated grayscale medical image viewing.  With W7Pro64 that calibration software works perfectly.  However, with W10Pro64 the software was suffering unexplained issues.  We are preparing for a full W10 transition for security reasons.  By pure genius (more likely by pure luck) I solved the problem and wanted to share info on this basic problem and our fix.

You can take a bit of time looking up problems with Hibernation and Fast Startup via Google for a foundation.  Here is the short version and how to tell in W10 that you have implemented the fix.  It turns out the solution hinges on turning off Hibernation in W10, via an "elevated command prompt" (running CMD as an administrator).  And, the act of turning it off makes almost no change that is identifiable (but the software begins working correctly again).  The clues to the solution were that the software would fail with each cold boot, but succeed with a each restart after the failed cold boot.  The issue appears to have been caused by portions of the program's code being stored for Fast Startup on cold boots, and was corrupted each time.  In contrast, Fast Startup was not used on restarts and thus this corruption of the code did not occur for those.  There are significant differences between cold boots and warm restarts, and usually a cold boot is better at problem solving (but not in this case).

HowTo:

1.  Navigate to Control Panel/ Power Options/ set Preferred Plans to High Performance.

2.  Then go to the left column of that window and click on "Choose what the power button does".  Below is what
that page looks like with default access, with Hibernate turned on at the OS level (the default circumstance):

This opens a new page, shown below, and click on "Change settings that are currently unavailable".  Here is what that page looks like before deeper access becomes available by that click.  Those options are currently grayed out in this image:

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The options become available for change by that action:

Do not change anything at those 4 options at this stage.... rather, cancel out of this all and proceed to turn off hibernation on an OS level via the elevated CMD technique. Copy this exact line with no spaces before or after:

powercfg -hibernate off

and then open an "elevated command prompt"... you can now paste that line (with no added space) just beyond system32> 

(You can right click and drag down to Paste, but you cannot use a CTRL + V keyboard shortcut)     Then hit the Enter key.

Nothing visibly changes in CMD at this action, but Hibernation is now off on the operating system level. It can be turned back on via doing the same process but instead using       powercfg -hibernate on         Some APC UPS software detects and advises about Hibernation being off, and in W10 you can see the difference versus the above screen shot:

From our experience and others for W10 all of our builds will have Hibernation and Fast Startup off...... both of those will happen automatically by use of this elevated command prompt technique.  I have experimented with only turning off Fast Startup.... I can't detect much of a benefit in startup speed by turning it on, but we sure have fixed an important problem by having it turned off the way detailed above.

[DGroves]

nice to know,.... where i worked we had several clients using "Dolphin" which was a scanning and database application that was always a major source of weird issues