It's been a while since I had a rant about the power options in Vista, so here we go again.

As I was running a little low of hard disk space I ran the Disk Cleanup Wizard. One of the options was to remove the hibernation file. It was around 2GB so I checked the option to give me a little more breathing room until I next needed to hibernate.

The snag was that doing this not only changed all my options from hibernate to sleep but removed all traces of hibernation from the Power Options.

Eventually I had a look on the Microsoft KnowledgeBase. Credit where credit's due, this is an excellent resource and it's rare that I can't find the answer here.

Well, there is an answer. All it takes is a simple command at the command prompt. powercfg.exe /hibernate on to be precise. And yes you can use off if you want to disable this feature.

It was quick and it worked, but it has left me wondering whether Windows is starting to become more reliant on the Command Prompt for this kind of setting. It's certainly much much easier than wandering around in the maze of options that has become a hallmark of Vista as far as I'm concerned.