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pagefile.sys & hiberfil.sys
Hi all, not sure if this is the correct spot for this question but I'll shoot anyway. I've just installed Windows 7 Ultimate using a 50GB partition on my Mac hard drive. I thought this was more than enough room for the OS, but as it turns out I only had 15GB of free space after the installation. I thought this couldn't possibly be right, so I checked various file sizes to see where all my hard drive space went. It turns out these two files were the culprit:
pagefile.sys (15.99GB)
hiberfil.sys (11.99GB)
Doing a bit of research led me to articles saying that hiberfil.sys is used for hibernation purposes and pagefile.sys is the virtual memory file that Windows uses. I normally don't even hibernate my computer, I just shut it off, so is there a way to make this file size smaller? A few articles have warned against deleting it. Not sure exactly what a virtual memory file is, but how can I make pagefile.sys smaller as well? The articles say that deleting it or turning the virtual memory option off could cause instability so I'm probably just looking to compress the size.
Here are the specs to my Mac Pro just in case it's needed to help you to help me optimize my system:
Processor: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3.2GHz
Number of Processors: 2
Total Number of Cores: 8
Memory: 16GB
Thanks in advance for any help!