Hello, I recently activated the hibernate option on my computer, but found out that the Hiberfil.sys file takes around 2-3GB of space on the hard-disk. Why is that so?
Ritesh_4
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Jump to Posthi. Hiberfil.sys is file, where windows stores your current data in Ram for Hibernate power management. so 2-3GB is normal. on my PC it takes arount 4Gb. you can disable Hibernate mode, and this file will be deleted. powercfg -h off command will disable Hibernate mode. note, that you should …
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siungaku
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hi. Hiberfil.sys is file, where windows stores your current data in Ram for Hibernate power management. so 2-3GB is normal. on my PC it takes arount 4Gb. you can disable Hibernate mode, and this file will be deleted. powercfg -h off command will disable Hibernate mode. note, that you should run command prompt in administrator mode
Ritesh_4
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thanks for the info...
Is it possible however to move this file to another hard-disk with more space available and use it from there?
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