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You can replace 50 with any number you like, but it must be below 75 and above 50 (you can’t choose below 50). This will decrease the hiberfil.sys size to 50% of your RAM. In the command prompt, enter the below command and hit enter: powercfg -h -size 50

Windows 8 and 10 users can press Windows + X keys and select Command Prompt (Admin) from the list.

Here right-click on Command Prompt shortcut and select Run as administrator from the context menu.

In Windows 7 and below, open start menu and go to All Program.

To decrease hiberfil size, you first need to open an elevated command prompt window. However, most people can survive on 50% hiberfil.sys size as well. The 75% threshold is only there to ensure you are able to use hibernate feature even when almost all of the RAM is filled with active processes. If you don’t always have loads of processes open before using hibernate mode, then you can decrease hiberfil.sys size to free up space. Thankfully you can either decrease or delete hiberfil.sys file to free up space on the system drive, here’s how to do it: Decrease hiberfil.sys Therefore, if you have 16GB of RAM, then hiberfil.sys size would be 12GB. The file size is equal to 75% of your total RAM installed. This file is used by the hibernate feature of Windows to move all the processes from RAM to this file when you put your PC on hibernate mode. If you open hidden files on the C drive, you would see a huge file named hiberfil.sys.

Decrease or delete hiberfil.sys file size Read Also: How to Delete Your Digital Footprint Completely 1. So, in this post, I’ll show you how to move large system files/folders to another drive and make them usable from there, and get rid of unnecessary data or features to free up space. You can move such files and folders to another drive to make space in your system drive. that can increase in size as you use your PC eventually taking up all the space. System drive (C drive usually) has many system files/folders such as temporary files, app data, libraries, etc. With a few hours of tinkering, I managed to free up 13GB of space without deleting even a single important file. With little to no room for deleting any data, I had to look for ways to free up space on my C drive that doesn’t involve deleting important data. I once wanted to install a 9GB game on my 20GB system drive with just 1GB free space (was the requirement of the game).