New Win7 Installation Too large

Lady Fitzgerald · 12 Mar 2013

VistaKing said:

If you would like you could do the command below. That will shrink your hibernation size not turn it completely off.

Code:

powercfg -h -size 50

What effect would that have on hibernation?

VistaKing · 12 Mar 2013

it reduces the size of your hiberfil.sys file.

-50 creates it of your physical memory

Hiberfil.sys uses 75% of your RAM

Lady Fitzgerald · 12 Mar 2013

VistaKing said:

it reduces the size of your hiberfil.sys file.

-50 creates it of your physical memory

Hiberfil.sys uses 75% of your RAM

Forgive me for being dense but what effect would that have on hibernation?

VistaKing · 12 Mar 2013

It won't turn off the hibernation. It will just cut the size down . Right now it is using 75% of your RAM if you do -50 it cuts it an half.

Lady Fitzgerald · 12 Mar 2013

So, if I cut the hyberfil.sys size in half, if I'm using more than half of 75% of RAM when a power outage while the computer is unattended forces my computer to hibernate, would I lose what I had going on?

VistaKing · 12 Mar 2013

It won't harm anything if you have a power outage. It just lowers your hiberfil.sys file .

Hibernate - Change Size of hiberfil.sys File

Lady Fitzgerald · 12 Mar 2013

So I'll be able to hibernate even if my RAM has more in it?

VistaKing · 12 Mar 2013

You should be. It shouldn't be turning it off. Test it out see if you like it.

gregrocker · 12 Mar 2013

I'd heed the Warning box in tutorial:

Hibernate - Change Size of hiberfil.sys File

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Lady Fitzgerald · 12 Mar 2013

Sorry, greg, all I'm seeing on this machine is a little blue box with an x in iy. Can you supply a link?