Remove the Vista / Windows 7 Hibernation File
Windows XP used to allow you to remove hiberfil.sys from within the power management options, under control panel. There’s little point going over how to do this as it’s well known and well documented.
However in Vista (and therefore Windows 7), Microsoft push hibernation and sleep far more aggressively and don’t provide a GUI way of turning it off. This is a real pain in the butt, as the hiberfil.sys is likely to be about the size of your physical memory – in my case 16GB. So I am wasting 16GB of space on my system drive for a feature I will never use. Not cool.
None the less, it is easy to disable and get your disk space back.
Just open the command prompt and enter:
powercfg.exe -h off
That’s it. Hibernate should disappear from the shutdown menu and the disk space should be cleared up straight away.
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