Irregular Expressions » hiberfil.sys server 2008 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/Irregular-Expressions Insight into current security related events and exploits, including virtualization security and tips. Sun, 28 Apr 2013 08:00:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Neat trick of the day http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/Irregular-Expressions/neat-trick-of-the-day/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/Irregular-Expressions/neat-trick-of-the-day/#comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 05:53:10 +0000 Dan O'Connor http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/Irregular-Expressions/neat-trick-of-the-day/ So looking to make room on the C volume of a server I notice hiberfil.sys taking up 6 GB of space.

While it’s nice for laptops and desktops to go in to hibernate mode, servers not so much.

Going through the GUI options did not turn much up, but after looking at some command line stuff I found;

powercfg.exe -h off

Just like that it’s gone no reboot required!

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