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maximdymok

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    Windows Vista's disk cleanup not working
    « on: June 28, 2010, 02:42:26 PM »
    Hi, well today I was using disk cleanup, and it scanned for a long time. Then, the results showed up-and it said i could free up to 1.2 or something like that GB of memory on my hard drive. Well i thought thats weird because I only used disk cleanup 2-3 weeks ago, and usually in that time i get no more than 200 MB of space that can be freed. I looked through the checklist, and found that 1.0GB or something close to that is taken by "Hibernation Files". Most of the other files don't take much. Well, i remembered that I HAVE done hibernation in the last 2 weeks, but not more than 2 times- and both of those were because my battery was almost dead so it automatically hibernated.(its a laptop)Now I ticked all the boxes in disk cleanup, and clicked delete or something dont remember what.It cleaned surprisingly fast.(10-20 seconds!!) Hmm, i thought that was strange, so not waiting i scanned it again. And it came up with "You can free up to 1 GB". So, 200 MB or something like that got deleted, which probably were the internet explorer files, and now only the hibernation files are left. I tried only ticking the hibernation files, cleaned but when scanned again it still said there was around one GB of hibernation files.How can I manually delete the hibernation files or why isn't disk cleanup doing the job? How can i fix it? Thanks for any help.

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    Re: Windows Vista's disk cleanup not working
    « Reply #1 on: June 28, 2010, 02:47:05 PM »
    Just delete the hiberfil.sys file in the root of c: drive

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      Re: Windows Vista's disk cleanup not working
      « Reply #2 on: June 28, 2010, 05:54:25 PM »
      Hey can you give me the exact path? I can't seem to find it..

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      Re: Windows Vista's disk cleanup not working
      « Reply #3 on: June 28, 2010, 11:34:41 PM »
      You can't delete  hiberfil.sys file in Vista.
      You can remove that file by turning off hibernation: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/10/25/how-to-turn-off-and-disable-hibernation-in-windows-vista/

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      Re: Windows Vista's disk cleanup not working
      « Reply #4 on: June 29, 2010, 07:04:29 AM »
      Sorry - your are correct of course Broni - missed the Vista part.

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      Re: Windows Vista's disk cleanup not working
      « Reply #5 on: June 29, 2010, 07:24:40 PM »
      No problem :)