I am trying to hibernate my computer from the command line (cmd). 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). 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. 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 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.
I think that it complains about time. Just put shutdown /h and it should work.
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.
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 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
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. 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 making multiple batch files, each with different number of seconds to wait, create and use the hibernate-later.bat file, which asks you when exactly you want to hibernate.
@echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion echo === :question set "answer=0" set /p answer="Hibernate after how many minutes? " cls rem Validate. echo %answer%| findstr /r "^[1-9][0-9]*$">nul if %errorlevel% equ 0 ( echo Counting... ) else ( echo Invalid number. goto :question ) set /A timeout=%answer% * 60 timeout /t !timeout! /nobreak shutdown /h /f pause Note that closing the Window cancels hibernate (for me at least), which is useful if you reconsider and decide to change the timer.
I used the solution proposed by Radko Dinev for some time. However, converting the number of hours and minutes into seconds every time started to bother me. That's why I decided to write the program myself. I would like to leave here a link to such a program that I authored. Maybe it will be useful to someone who will be looking for a similar solution in the future. The program is free, I do not receive any benefits for downloading and using it. You don't have to convert minutes and hours to seconds. It is also possible to turn off the monitor earlier. hibernationdelayer
Instead of / use -.
Use the below command in the CMD as admin priv and test
shutdown -h 
