I just installed Server 2008 R2, and don't see an option to go into Standby or hibernate. Is there some way to enable or access these?
Currently the only options appear o be shut-down or restart.
I just installed Server 2008 R2, and don't see an option to go into Standby or hibernate. Is there some way to enable or access these?
Currently the only options appear o be shut-down or restart.
Did you try the following in an administrator console:
Also see MS KB920730
With the HyperV role installed you cannot standby/hibernate and there is no way around this (that I have found)
Also, I suggest Win2008Workstation.com for some resources as I assume you are using in a non-server environment
Just running up vanilla install to confirm about hibernate/standby for a server product from MSProvided hibernation is enabled as described in the earlier answer (powercfg.exe -hibernate on), you can also hibernate from the command line using the command
The the Shutdown command doesn't have a sleep option though.
I've seen various postings suggesting that one of the command's below can be used to trigger sleep / standby but on my system it triggers hibernate and I think the behaviour is dependent on your system settings. The documentation for SetSuspendState function describes the sleep capability but I suspect it has something to do with using rundll32 to call the function. The "Standby" or "0,1,0" parameter is being dealt with as single string and SetSuspendState was not written in a way to support the rundll32 interface specifically.
Ideally, it would be in the start menu....but sleep can be accessed by going to the desktop and pressing alt-f4....and then selecting sleep from the dropdown