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by adabyron 154 days ago
Maybe some Microsoft Devs can publish a book about all the secret regedit hacks they use to make it function for themselves. I think Dave Plummer or another Msft vet mentioned you can remove hibernate & get 25GB back on your hard drive.
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Spivak 154 days ago
Well yeah it's basically Windows' version of a swap partition where they can dump the OS state when hibernating.

You can get even more of your hard drive back by limiting the size of Windows' page file.

I'm actually a big fan of hibernation on laptops and have mine set to suspend for 5 minutes then hibernate. My real life usage battery life has been noticeably longer with this setup.

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keyringlight 154 days ago
Isn't disabling hibernate "powercfg /hibernate off"? I'm not aware of a simple and obvious UI switch to do the same
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dragonwriter 154 days ago
I'm pretty sure hibernate has defaulted to off for quite a while and has to be turned on if desired (at least, the last several machines I've bought new that was the case.)

The UI switch is not particularly obvious, at Control Panel → Hardware and Sound → Power Options → System Settings

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