Hibernation has got to be one of the good things that Windows offers for mobile computing. But if you don’t have a real use for it, then why not just turn it off. While there are some good things about it – not losing what you’re doing when you need to shut your computer down – there are some kinks to it that I don’t like to deal with. Like the hibernation file taking as much space as you have physical RAM. And I have 2GBs of RAM and only 120GBs of hard drive space and I’ve actually used a great deal of that. Another 2GBs of data just to store a current session isn’t too attractive at all.
With Vista, there are two ways to disable hibernation. Pick your poison.
Via Disk Cleanup
- Click Start and type
disk cleanupand hit Enter - Select All files from this computer (be sure to have administrator privileges here as User Account control will bug you)
- Select the drive where Vista is installed
- Wait for Vista to finish scanning the files
- Check the Hibernation File Cleaner option then click OK (just take note of the other options that are checked)
- If prompted to delete files, click the Delete Files button
Via Command Prompt
Now I clearly don’t get it why disabling Hibernation doesn’t appear in the Power Options but you can do a manual override via command prompt.
- Click Start then type
command prompt, right-click on the icon and select “Run as Administrator” - Acknowledge the UAC prompt
- In the command prompt window, type
powercfg –h off - Close the command prompt window
THX.
“powercfg –h off” works fine in CMD for my VISTA.
I saved 2,5 GB on my HDD.
VICTORY !!!
“Click Start then type command prompt”
You don’t have to type ‘command prompt’ you can simply type ‘cmd’. Just an FYI
Thank you so much!! It worked for me too!
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Just a note though, it didn’t work with lowrcase but asked me to type /? for more info and when I typed it exactly like this POWERCFG -H OFF it worked! Victory!
D 2GB off my hard drive
gr88888 stuff bro. worked gr8 for me thanks
by the way you can type ‘powercfg -h off’ right into the vista start menu search and hit enter and it will automatically launch CMD, works with other command line commands also
Great stuff … Vista getting more & more sleek for me.
Hi
Thanks really nice control of commands
can u tell me more special command
bye
I had to do powercfg /h off -h wasn’t a valid parameter.