VAIO always hibernates, when I don't want it to

I have set the power options in all profiles to Hibernate: Never, yet my Z2 (and also the Z1's I had) always go into hibernation after they've been asleep for a while, and it's driving me nuts.

Does anyone know what I could try? Basically, I never want it to hibernate but only sleep when connected to mains power.

 

Run a console windows as administrator and type in

powercfg -H off

This disables your hibernation (you never use it anyways), you get back valuabe SSD space that hibernation wastes (4+ GBytes) and you are rid of your issue.

 

Only partially, because when on battery I'm quite happy for it to hibernate after an hour or so.

Am I the only one with this problem?

 

With the ssd I find that recovery from hibernate actually takes longer than just booting from scratch. Therefore I have no use for hibernate.
For me its either sleep or else power off

 

In Vaio Control Center->Power Mgmt->Power Options, there's a checkbox for hibernate. But if you uncheck it, you probably risk that the battery runs out completely and the computer stops uncontrollably.

To me, hibernation is pretty important as I have lots of programs and windows open when I work. Eclipse, DB-editor, 5+ shells, Firefox, mail, etc. etc. When I hibernate, I don't have to go around saving my work everywhere, I just hibernate and everything will look exactly the same when I start again. This goes for both the virtual linux machine I usually work with and for the windows host OS.

So, yes, it's faster to boot up from scratch to a blank desktop, but if I want to get all programs back to the state they were, it's much faster to hibernate than to manually set it up.

 

Same for me, I want it to hibernate after 1 hour when on battery, but never when on mains power.
But as mentioned, my machine invariably hibernates after a certain amount of time in sleep.
The settings in power options are the once I mentioned, and I set hibernation to Never on there. Yet it always hibernates.

 

You have probably stated this but I just do not understand:
If you goto Power Options and hit Change Plan Settings for you plan
and then hit Change Advanced power settings
then in the pop up
expand Sleep then expand Hibernate After what does Plugged in: say?
I am just getting very curious about this. Thank you

 

This sounds like hybrid sleep and can be disabled in the advanced power options.

 

Isn't hybrid sleep set to off by default on laptops?
I can't check that anymore, now that I've disabled hibernation altogether.

 

^No. And it's definitely what your problem was. Sounds like you fixed it another way.