Hibernate on Desktop machine

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Is it possible to remove the hibernate file on a Windows7 desktop
machine. I've made sure that in power options the machine will never
hibernate, but the system still prevents me deleting the 2.5Gb file.
 
Did you disable Hibernation from the power options setting in Control Panel?
That'll remove the giant file.
 
Oldster said:
Is it possible to remove the hibernate file on a Windows7 desktop
machine. I've made sure that in power options the machine will never
hibernate, but the system still prevents me deleting the 2.5Gb file.
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From an elevated command prompt, POWERCFG -H OFF works on Vista,
probably for Windows 7 as well.
 
Zaphod Beeblebrox said:
From an elevated command prompt, POWERCFG -H OFF works on Vista, probably for Windows 7 as well.
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It does work in Win7, in fact it looks like it's the only way in Win7 to remove this file.
 
Yea. That worked. Great. But I don't understand why the more nomal "Power"
interface doesn't seem to do the job!
 
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