Tip for Windows 7 Users with small drives / SSD

foolkillerfoolkiller Ontario
edited January 2011 in Hardware
I just wanted to mention that anyone using Windows 7 on a smaller SSD like I am, will have some space issues. You can free up some much needed space by running command prompt as administrator and typing:

powercfg -h off

This will disable your hibernate, but will free up however much hard drive space you have in RAM. For me, that's either 8GB or 16GB, depending on which system I'm using. Also, if you wipe your pagefile on shutdown, it also wipes this file as well, effectively doubling your shutdown time, so getting rid of it is a big bonus as long as you don't use hibernate.
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