The Hidden Guide

How to Disable and Enable Windows Vista Hibernation

Posted on July 23, 2007 by admin

What is Hibernation?
Hibernation is Feature in windows vista “also in windows xp” that enable the operating system to quickly shut down the computer and save the computer status so when you power on your computer again you will get your computer last status includes all application and files that you have been working on it before you shut down

So why you need to disable hibernation?
hibernation save an image file usually on drive C or where you have installed windows vista
this image is set to be just like RAM size
for example if you have 1 GB Ram this file set to be 1 GB
so it takes lots of space, disable hibernation help you to free more disk space
especially if you don’t use this feature.

navigate to the C Drive there is file called hiberfil.sys if you can’t see it
go to control panel open the folder option
then select the view tab scroll down uncheck “hide protected operating system files (Recommend)”

How To Disable the Hibernation?

1-Open the Command prompt window (start/run/ then type/ cmd)

2-Type this command powercfg –h off then press enter

3-Reboot your computer

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