If you ever noticed the hiberfil.sys file in the root of your Windows system drive and wondered what it was and how to get rid of it, well here’s your answer!
The hiberfil.sys file is used with the Windows Hibernate feature, and even if you modify your power plan and disable the hibernation features in there, the file will still be on your system. The file size depends on the amount of RAM your system has, as it is used to dump some (or almost all) of the data in RAM on to your hard drive so it can enter a hibernation state. For my system, since I have 4GB of RAM, the file was almost 4GB in size so it made sense to get rid of it if I wasn’t going to use Hibernation mode.
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Are you a fan of how Linux (Unix) allows you to designate an actual hard drive partition to swap space? Ever wished that Windows would let you do something similar, instead of having to either store it on the same partition as Windows, or have to designate an actual drive letter to another partition just for swap?
For the longest time ever, I always wished that you could do more than just move your Windows swap file (pagefile.sys) to another drive letter. First of all, having to assign a drive letter to the partition you want purely for storing the Windows page file really sucks because then that means the drive letter shows up in explorer (sure, you can hide drive letters, but you’ve still wasted a drive letter on the partition). Second of all, if you think you’re being smart by creating a partition at the root of your drive during Windows installation, chances are you kicked yourself after going through the install only to realize that it assigned that partition the letter “C:” and now Windows is installed on “D:” (good luck getting out of that scenario – I’d recommend just redoing the install entirely; trust me it saves you a ton of headaches).
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