Quickly enable or disable Vista hibernation

Quickly enable or disable Vista hibernation

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Sometimes it is necessary to create space on the system partition and a good alternative is the hibernation to deactivate temporarily.
The file created by hibernation hiberfil.sys has at least the size of the installed RAM.
The hibernation is not used at all?
Then we'll show you a lightning-fast solution to activate or deactivate it.

 Deactivate hibernation

Go to Start> All Programs and click with the Right click on command prompt.
In the context menu select as "Run administrator"and confirm the security question.

In the command prompt that is now open, enter the command

powercfg -H off and confirm with Enter.
Restart the computer and the hibernation is deactivated.

 

 

Enable hibernation

Use the command analogous to the description for deactivating the idle state

powercfg -H on

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Info:
The hiberfil.sys file is located on the Vista system partition C: \
is hidden and is not displayed in the working column.

 

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