Windows 7 Turn off sleep (hibernate) mode and delete hibernation files

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How do I turn off the Sleep (Hibernate) feature of Windows 7? How do I delete a hibernation file from a Windows 7 system? Windows 7 is enabled by default sleep and sleep function, the main function of sleep function is to save all the running data on the current computer to the hard disk sleep file (Hiberfil.sys), the computer Windows7 computer power off, restart, you can quickly from the hibernation file ( Hiberfil.sys) reads the data and returns to normal.

Sleep file is called: Hiberfil.sys, stored in the C drive, this file will generally occupy 1g-2g around the size of storage space. Some users of Windows 7 computer C disk space is not too large, you can delete the sleep file Hiberfil.sys, to expand the space around 2G, in addition, some users will feel the system sleep, sleep function is more troublesome, so want to shut down.

one, turn off sleep (hibernate) function

1. Click "Start Menu" in the lower left corner of the Windows system, then click "Control Panel"

Open the Win7 Control Panel

2. Click on the "Hardware and sound" option

In the Win7 Control Panel, click the "Hardware and sound" option

3. Click "Power Options"

Continue tapping "Power Options"

4. Click "Change plan Settings"

In power options, tap change plan settings

5. After the "Put the computer to sleep" option, select: Never-click "Save Changes" as shown

Turn off the Sleep (Hibernate) feature of Windows 7

Note the problem:

If you are a laptop, here are 2 options, namely: battery, power on, in these 2 options, respectively, select: Never.

Second, delete the hibernation file (Hiberfil.sys)

1. Click on the bottom left corner: Start button and enter:cmd--> in the search box to find the top search results option cmd, then right click, select: Run as administrator as shown in

In Win7, run cmd as Administrator

2. Click " Yes " in the popup dialog box.

3. Enter command: Powercfg-h off, then press ENTER on the keyboard to execute

Deleting hibernation files in Win7

4. After successful execution of the command, the hibernation file in C drive will be deleted successfully Hiberfil.sys

Delete Succeeded

Now look at the C disk is not space instantly added several g it.

Windows 7 Turn off sleep (hibernate) mode and delete hibernation files