Healthy But Sluggish Growing Baby

[Maxwell]

My Windows Vista installation is growing - healthily I suppose! From an
initial installed system size of around 5.7 GB, it is now over 10 GB. System
Restore and Hibernation are both turned off and the pagefile is on a
different drive.

The only programs installed are Acrobat Reader 7.08, Lavasoft AdAware,
avast! AnitVirus 4.7, Intervideo WinDVD 7, Acronis TrueImage 8, Firefox
1.5.0.4, DiskPie Pro, Disk Cleaner and CCleaner.

The total size of the above installed program folders is well less than 0.5
GB. The massive folder in the Windows directory is "winsxs" and it itself is
about 4 GB. System32 is another 3.6 GB. Even though Hibernation is turned
off there is a 1.8 GB hiberfil.sys file in the root directory that cannot be
deleted and is not present in Safe Mode.

The only tangible effect felt in Windows over the days is that Windows
Explorer takes more and more time to open and show the contents of any
folder. WE itself springs up in a second and goes to the default view of C:\
(as I set it) but opening any folder thereafter takes longer day by day.
Selecting any folder starts the Search bar running on the top of the windows
and it takes well over a minute to complete.

I have not turned off any of the 48 services that are running on this
machine that has an AMD 64 2.01 GHz CPU with 1500 MB DDR RAM.

I wonder what's going on! Apart from this odd quirk Vista is working very
well indeed.

I have also files a report with the reporting tool in the meantime. I am
posting this here in case anyone would be kind enough to provide any
suggestion.

Regards and thanks for any insights.

Maxwell

 

[Gary Mount]

The hiberfil.sys might be present because of the new hybrid sleep mode. If
you put your computer to sleep, Vista will also create a hibernation file
just in case you lose power.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Since I have 4GB of ram, that is difintely not something I want to do.