[jgwdoc]

My Vista partition of 60GB only has 15GB free, and I'm only running one game at a time and uninstalling before I start the next one. So, what can be safely dumped? 8GB seem to be dedicated to a "hibernation" folder--can that be jettisoned?

[XxtraLarGe]

jgwdoc, on May 1st 2008, 03:39 PM, said:

My Vista partition of 60GB only has 15GB free, and I'm only running one game at a time and uninstalling before I start the next one. So, what can be safely dumped? 8GB seem to be dedicated to a "hibernation" folder--can that be jettisoned?

No, the Hibernation folder is where the magic happens!

[jgwdoc]

XxtraLarGe, on May 1st 2008, 01:20 PM, said:

No, the Hibernation folder is where the magic happens!

Maybe that's why Vista takes so long to wake up.

[XxtraLarGe]

jgwdoc, on May 1st 2008, 05:47 PM, said:

Maybe that's why Vista takes so long to wake up.

You don't understand what's going on though. The Hibernation folder is actually a virtual quantum computer that does calculations while the computer is sleeping! You have NO IDEA how long it would take to do anything in Vista without the Hibernation folder!

[Dark_Archon]

The hibernation folder is just a copy of your RAM contents. If you disable hibernate you can trash it.

[jgwdoc]

Dark_Archon, on May 2nd 2008, 09:28 AM, said:

The hibernation folder is just a copy of your RAM contents. If you disable hibernate you can trash it.

Sorry to be dense, but I really am Windows illiterate--how do I disable hibernation, as opposed to just deleting the folder via the Windows "optimization" routine? And will that hurt anything in particular?

[QuantaCat]

best bet is to check the system settings folder for anything like that. although I have to admit, I have no clue how all of the settings are handled in Vista as opposed to XP.

[bobbob]

The disk cleanup wizard has an option to delete the hibernation file, IIRC. That should also turn it off. There's also this. I'd personally use this to remove stuff like MovieMaker, Mail, and language packs. BTW, an 8GB hibernation file should mean you have 8GB of RAM, if you're using Vista 64 I'd turn down the page file size if I was really hard-up for space.

[Janichsan]

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Windows Bloat, What can be safely dumped?

There is only one correct answer to this: Windows.

[jgwdoc]

bobbob, on May 2nd 2008, 01:11 PM, said:

The disk cleanup wizard has an option to delete the hibernation file, IIRC. That should also turn it off. There's also this. I'd personally use this to remove stuff like MovieMaker, Mail, and language packs. BTW, an 8GB hibernation file should mean you have 8GB of RAM, if you're using Vista 64 I'd turn down the page file size if I was really hard-up for space.

Thank you. That's very helpful. Indeed I do have 8GB of RAM, so dumping that hibernation file will help a lot. It's not that I'm out of space yet, but 45GB for the OS and 1 game is a bit shocking, so I want to start to prune.

Janichsan, on May 2nd 2008, 02:08 PM, said:

There is only one correct answer to this: Windows.

Yes, of course, and for that reason I was a latecomer to Bootcamp. But so far I've played more good games (Bioshock, Max Payne 2, Crysis) in 2 months than I usually play in one year on the Mac side. So, I shrug and bear Windows.