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.Just delete the hiberfil.sys file in the root of c: driveHey can you give me the exact path? I can't seem to find it..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/Sorry - your are correct of course Broni - missed the Vista part.No problem