Windows7 64bit 8gb i5 2500K

 

I can't eliminate the Hibernate function. I have set Hibernate off in the Power Options of the Control Panel but Windows insists on creating the Hibernate file. I would like a bit more disk space and this is wasting it.

Does this help you? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920730

YES! Thanks for that info and also I now know of a nice site for any other headaches that pop-up. I spent some timr running around the system trying to find out why W7 insisted on using hibernate despite it bening marked as off in the Control Panel.

Hibernate can be quite usefull feature for heavy iron simmers who do long haul.

 

I just pause minimise fsx then hibernate the PC. I minimise FSX so that all the carefully placed FSX panel windows keep thier position.

 

I just spotted the 8gig hibernate.sys file today during o&o defrag, its takes up 8Gig in a fast part of the hdd. Quite expensive if you dont use hibernate.

Obscenely large hiberfil is why MS changed it in win8 so it only stores a much smaller amount of data. Win7 hibernate and SSD don't really go together.

 

scott s.

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