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Hibernate is disabled, hiberfil.sys gets recreated at each boot

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Mar 15, 202636323 views
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I have Windows 7 running on a small (40GB) partition, with 4GB ram. This means that the hiberfil.sys file created by Hibernate takes up a significant portion of the available diskspace. I would like to remove it. I am aware that I can disable Hibernate and remove hiberfil.sys by entering in an elev…

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powercfg -h off

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Fix for: Hibernate is disabled, hiberfil.sys gets recreated at each boot

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My Windows 7x64 install is on an SSD partition on a Mac laptop. I've disabled with powercfg /h off (elevated) and ms fixit's disable hibernate, as well as the setting registry key HibernateEnable value to 0. Hiberfil.sys is deleted only until reboot…

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