Keven Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 (edited) This thread is just a tip for people who don't know this. I just learnt this a minute ago so I wanted to share this out of good will. My C: drive was just filling up every time. I never hibernate my pc so if you don't usually hibernate your pc, follow these steps. First open cmd and you MUST run as administrator. The gif explains it all. After you open cmd, type "powercfg.exe /hibernate off" Without the ""! When you run this command, you won't be able to hibernate your pc and it will temporarily delete your hibernate files. However, If you want to enable it back, simply type "powercfg.exe /hibernate on" Hope this helps at least a few people. Thanks! I am not sure how safe this is! Do it at your own risk! Edited October 14, 2015 by Keven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okabe Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 the amount of HDD space saved will be equal to your RAM size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acerd Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 nice thread , saved me 3gb not much but it works Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keven Posted October 14, 2015 Author Share Posted October 14, 2015 the amount of HDD space saved will be equal to your RAM size. I have 16GB of ram and this command saved me around 12GB. You may be right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobrocket Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 The "science" of this: In windows, we have 2 SWAP partitions (or files if you will): hiberfile.sys and pagefile.sys - hiberfile stores the states of every program for when you hibernate (it's how we recover programs, it's essentially a dump of your RAM). Disabling this means that you can't hibernate, which means hiberfile no longer has a dump of the RAM and is now useless (and empty). I wouldn't recommend doing this, as it can cause problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keven Posted October 14, 2015 Author Share Posted October 14, 2015 The "science" of this: In windows, we have 2 SWAP partitions (or files if you will): hiberfile.sys and pagefile.sys - hiberfile stores the states of every program for when you hibernate (it's how we recover programs, it's essentially a dump of your RAM). Disabling this means that you can't hibernate, which means hiberfile no longer has a dump of the RAM and is now useless (and empty). I wouldn't recommend doing this, as it can cause problems. You may be right. I googled about it and didn't find too many problems. Hope I don't come across any problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volta Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 You may be right. I googled about it and didn't find too many problems. Hope I don't come across any problems. I think he means hibernate can be useful to you at times by saving your session when you suddenly lose power.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
