HowTo: Disk space reduction on C:\ Drive [Windows 7]

Author: Rp
Date: May 23, 2014
Tags: AppData, ccleaner, ccleaner free, disk cleanup, disk space, disk space analyzer, hiberfil.sys, hibernate, how-to, pagefile.sys, registry clean up, spacesniffer, uninstall, win7, windows, windows 7
Categories: Howto, Windows

I am suffering from a big time space crunch when it comes to my windows box. Unbelievable. Even a 300G disk seem insufficient! And, I am geeky enough to ensure my private stuff, work stuff & OS stuff does not reside on the same partition. Yet I get into super-duper mess! Now I am at my […]

What is hiberfil.sys and how do I delete it?

Author: Rp
Date: May 23, 2014
Tags: disk space, hiberfil.sys, hibernate, how-to, powercfg, win7, windows, windows 7
Categories: Howto, Windows

Did you also notice a giant (apparently) useless hiberfil.sys sitting in your C:\?! So did I. Well, it is nothing but “a placeholder if we choose to hibernate the system.” The geeky information here is if the user chooses to hibernate instead of sleep or shutdown then the entire RAM (at that point in time) […]