I am a heavy use worker with Lenovo w530 notebook. I carry my bag to and from my office to home. I need more space in C(OS) drive since I have so many softwares installed. I have heard that you can off the hibernation file in windows 8 using powercfg -h off
in administrator's command prompt. But I turned off that file and ran into a boot problem. I think it might be for the jolting due to rugged journey between my office and home. So in this situation, considering negative sides, will it be a better choice to turn off the hibernation files on my machine?
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I do this on all my Windows PC's W7~W10 with booting issues.– MoabAug 16, 2016 at 17:25
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What problem notebook can run into due to rugged journey jolting? Is this problem tied to hibernate files anyway?– LearnerAug 16, 2016 at 17:44
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I should have said "Without booting issues" in my comment, not sure what your issue is, sorry.– MoabAug 16, 2016 at 19:36
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When Hibernated or truly shut down (either complete or hybrid), the disk is off and it would take severe vibration to damage it (probably severe enough to damage the display). In Sleep mode, though, the computer is slightly active and disk damage might be possible.– DrMoishe PippikAug 16, 2016 at 23:51
1 Answer
The correct command is
powercfg -h off
You will need to do that as an Administrator. To save time, make a very small batch file with that command, and a shortcut to that file. Right-click on the shortcut, select Properties, click the Advanced button and select Run as Administrator.
You can make a similar batch file and shortcut to turn Hibernate on, if desired.
That said, you can probably get far more space on your drive by cleaning up unneeded files:
Right-click on the C drive in Explorer, select Properties, and click Disk Cleanup. Include Clean up System files.
Clean the WinSxs directory. Not all files can be removed, but a few GB can be saved. See also Laptop Mag.