Windows 7 hiberfil.sys
by BenV on Feb.25, 2012, under Software
My windows partition was low on free disk space so I looked around for what game to remove.
Until I noticed C:\hiberfil.sys taking a whopping 12 GIGABYTES of disk space.
For a feature that I never use. (I either play games on windows or don’t run it at all, sleep mode etc was already disabled).
Seems like turning off the hiberfil.sys takes more effort than in XP (where it was a checkbox hidden in the power management options).
To disable it:
1. Start a command prompt as administrator
2. powercfg -H off
Voila, diskspace.
