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RyanSteele-CoV - Intune has a setting to disable Hibernate with Power Policy CSP | Microsoft Learn which is in the Settings catalog. Just be aware in the policy note that it does not override any powercfg configurations or if you manually set the HibernateEnabled setting.
Thanks EricMoe. However, wouldn’t this disable the Hibernation feature entirely? Couldn’t that result in someone losing work if their laptop runs out of battery?
I am interested to understand why Fast Startup still exists and is enabled by default.
- EricMoeJan 15, 2026
Microsoft
The policy would disable Hibernate entirely. There is no fidelity of control to just disable the Fast Startup feature (which relies on Hibernate). Ultimately it's left on because it cuts boot time significantly which is one of our biggest end user experience metrics. It's a good ask for being able to turn off in certain scenarios, but disabling across the organization could optimize for the edge case (user shut down versus restarted and something like an app or driver did not load properly) while (possibly) hurting the common case of improved startup time.