What does hiberfil.sys do? I'm always hesitant to delete files if I don't
know what they are.

"Dixonian69" wrote:

> Delete the current hiberfil.sys
> and defrag hard drive.
>
> Hard drive cache is fixed on hard drive. don't think it can be changed. some
> have 2mb and some 8mb cache.
>
> "novice_geek" wrote:
>
> > I have 50 GB of free space on my 70 GB drive. I am using XP Home SP2, and I
> > know that the reource allocation is a known issue with Microsoft.
> >
> > "Dixonian69" wrote:
> >
> > > the question could be : do you have 2 gig worth of free space on hard drive
> > > for Hibernate file. Possibly contiguous space?
> > >
> > > "novice_geek" wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have a new laptop which I upgraded to 2 GB of RAM. I'm having the same
> > > > problem many have written about on this site - the system cannot hibernate
> > > > due to insufficient system resources. I noticed a post when I did a search on
> > > > Google about this suggesting that the problem could be due to an insufficient
> > > > cache size on the hard drive large enough for the computer to write all the
> > > > memory to before hibernating. Has anyone tried increasing the cache size to
> > > > fix this problem? If so, did it work?
> > > >
> > > > (Forgive me if I'm using incorrect terminology. I'm a novice.)