Vista - Disable Hibernation & Delete hiberfil.sys

Vista RTM Version 6000. Dual booting XP & Vista
I'm running low on space on the C drive and until I can find a way of
resizing partitions I'm reduced to not installing much.
The page file is on a different drive.I've disabled hibernation but
cannot delete the hibernation file. I need the space.

Can anyone help on how I do this ?
Is there a partition mover/resizer that works with Vista installed ?
Preferably one that does not need a cmd guru to use ?

Mike

disk cleanup will both disable it AND delete it

or powercfg -h off, reboot, delete it



"Mike" <me@mine.com> wrote in message
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> Vista RTM Version 6000. Dual booting XP & Vista
> I'm running low on space on the C drive and until I can find a way of
> resizing partitions I'm reduced to not installing much.
> The page file is on a different drive.I've disabled hibernation but cannot
> delete the hibernation file. I need the space.
>
> Can anyone help on how I do this ?
> Is there a partition mover/resizer that works with Vista installed ?
> Preferably one that does not need a cmd guru to use ?
>
> Mike

Mike wrote:
> Vista RTM Version 6000. Dual booting XP & Vista
> I'm running low on space on the C drive and until I can find a way of
> resizing partitions I'm reduced to not installing much.
> The page file is on a different drive.I've disabled hibernation but
> cannot delete the hibernation file. I need the space.
>
> Can anyone help on how I do this ?
> Is there a partition mover/resizer that works with Vista installed ?
> Preferably one that does not need a cmd guru to use ?
>
> Mike

Thanks for that Troy, works a treat, used the disk clean method.

All I need now is a partition moving tool and I'm nearly back to normal
usage as in XP.

If you need to resize a partition, Vista does that too...

Resize Partitions with Vista Disk Management
In Windows Vista it is now possible to resize partitions without any data loss in the new Disk
Management console.

Resizing Partitions with Windows Vista:

1. Click on the Start Button and right click on Computer and select Manage.
2. Expand the Storage section and select Disk Management.
3. Then just right click on any partition and select either Expand or Shrink to change the size of
the partition.

This will allow you to safely resize your partitions without any data loss.



"Mike" <me@mine.com> wrote in message news:%23ZCR1%23lQHHA.488@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Mike wrote:
>> Vista RTM Version 6000. Dual booting XP & Vista
>> I'm running low on space on the C drive and until I can find a way of resizing partitions I'm
>> reduced to not installing much.
>> The page file is on a different drive.I've disabled hibernation but cannot delete the hibernation
>> file. I need the space.
>>
>> Can anyone help on how I do this ?
>> Is there a partition mover/resizer that works with Vista installed ?
>> Preferably one that does not need a cmd guru to use ?
>>
>> Mike
>
> Thanks for that Troy, works a treat, used the disk clean method.
>
> All I need now is a partition moving tool and I'm nearly back to normal usage as in XP.

Just tried Disk cleanup. That seems to have worked nicely.

steve

"Troy McClure" <g@s.com> wrote in message
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> disk cleanup will both disable it AND delete it
>
> or powercfg -h off, reboot, delete it
>
>
>
> "Mike" <me@mine.com> wrote in message
> news:%23u9RWYlQHHA.4448@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Vista RTM Version 6000. Dual booting XP & Vista
>> I'm running low on space on the C drive and until I can find a way of
>> resizing partitions I'm reduced to not installing much.
>> The page file is on a different drive.I've disabled hibernation but
>> cannot delete the hibernation file. I need the space.
>>
>> Can anyone help on how I do this ?
>> Is there a partition mover/resizer that works with Vista installed ?
>> Preferably one that does not need a cmd guru to use ?
>>
>> Mike
>