hiberfil.sys

[Sinner]

Vista Home Premium on a Gateway Convertible Laptop(Tablet)

I have all my power settings to "Never", never sleep, never turn off, etc.
Yet I cannot delete the hiberfil.sys in the root directory.

XP had an opt out feature for hibernate that would allow this file to be
deleted. I guess MS feels we've gotten too stupid to make that
determination for ourselves in Vista. Just another feature we can't choose
to live without.

 

[mikeyhsd]

have you tried booting into safe mode.




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Vista Home Premium on a Gateway Convertible Laptop(Tablet)

I have all my power settings to "Never", never sleep, never turn off, etc.
Yet I cannot delete the hiberfil.sys in the root directory.

XP had an opt out feature for hibernate that would allow this file to be
deleted. I guess MS feels we've gotten too stupid to make that
determination for ourselves in Vista. Just another feature we can't choose
to live without.

 

[Sinner]

Actually, no. I can't delete it because it's use by another program. If I
boot into Safe Made, delete it and reboot, it will just make another one. I
need to turn off the hibernation option.


have you tried booting into safe mode.



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Vista Home Premium on a Gateway Convertible Laptop(Tablet)

I have all my power settings to "Never", never sleep, never turn off, etc.
Yet I cannot delete the hiberfil.sys in the root directory.

XP had an opt out feature for hibernate that would allow this file to be
deleted. I guess MS feels we've gotten too stupid to make that
determination for ourselves in Vista. Just another feature we can't choose
to live without.

 

[PaulB]

Open a command prompt as administartor (right click the command prompt icon
and select Run as administrator). Then type in

powercfg -h off

 

[John Barnett MVP]

Hibernation may be 'turned off' but it isn't disabled. To turn off
Hibernation and remove the hiberfil.sys follow the instruction on this link
from my website: http://vistasupport.mvps.org/disable_hibernation.htm

The easiest option is to use the disk cleanup Option


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[Sinner]

Open a command prompt as administartor (right click the command prompt
icon
and select Run as administrator). Then type in

powercfg -h off

That did the trick. Thanks.

 

[Sinner]

Hibernation may be 'turned off' but it isn't disabled. To turn off
Hibernation and remove the hiberfil.sys follow the instruction on this
link from my website: http://vistasupport.mvps.org/disable_hibernation.htm

Thanks. Worked like a charm.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

You're Welcome

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