Comments on: Windows 7 – Enable or disable hibernation

By: Lassie

Lassie — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:11:37 +0000

I disabled hibernation using the method you described, but the hiberfil.sys file is still there. What am I doing wrong? Do I have to manually delete it? Thanks.

By: Jesus

Jesus — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:35:30 +0000

Thank you, finally I was able to delete that file that was taking up unnecessary space!

By: Wiley

Wiley — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:33:26 +0000

Note that you can also type in powercfg -h off to turn off hibernation in Windows 7. Also, this is the only method that will completely delete the hiberfil.sys file.

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:01:20 +0000

Thanks for this information, but I have one questions. What exactly is the difference between the Sleep mode in Windows 7 and hibernation? I was under the impression that Hibernation was going to be replaced by this new mode…guess not!