Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Add Hibernate Button to Shutdown Screen

How to Add Hibernate Button to Shutdown Screen?

For all those who hibernate their pc, this trick comes handy. Traditionally, to hibernate your PC, you have to hold down the shift key on the shut down screen, the Stand by button changes to Hibernate then you click on it. This trick adds a Hibernate button to the Shut down screen. Now you have all four buttons on one screen so no need to press Shift key.

The below pictures will explain more clearly.

Before:



After:


Steps:
  1. Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
  2. Locate and then click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows
  3. Right-click Windows, point to New, and then click Key.
  4. In the New Key #1 box, type System, and then press ENTER.
  5. Right-click System, point to New, and then click Key.
  6. In the New Key #1 box, type Shutdown, and then press ENTER.
  7. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
  8. In the New Value # 1 box, type HibernateAsDefault, and then press ENTER.
  9. Right-click HibernateAsDefault, and then click Modify.
  10. In the Value data box, type 1, leave the default Hexadecimal option selected, and then click OK.
  11. Exit Regedit
  12. Restart your system.

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