If you need to turn back on the hibernate feature, follow the same procedure and type ‘powercfg -h on’. Once you’ve done that, you will notice that the hiberfil.sys file had disappeared from your system drive ‘C:’ and the amount of free disk space available now is bigger. To disable the hibernate feature, type ‘powercfg -h off’ and press Enter. To do this, click on Start, search for the word ‘cmd’, right click on the ‘cmd.exe’ search result and select ‘Run as administrator’.Īlternatively, you can find the Command Prompt shortcut by going to Start -> Accessories. In this article I will show you how to disable these two features and gain more disk space.įirst, you need to start the Command Prompt and run it as an administrator. For such computer users, it makes sense to disable completely these features as this means saving the disk space used to generate the hibernation file.
Even though features such as hibernation and hybrid sleep are being useful to many people, there are some who never use them and prefer to shut down their laptop/PC when they’re not using it. Not only it can dynamically adjust the voltage and the core frequency of your processor, thus decreasing the average power consumption and heat production, but it also has some additional sleep modes such as hybrid sleep. Compared to Windows XP, Windows Vista has improved a lot when it comes to energy saving features.
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