You can turn off Hibernate and free up the 488MB file.  pagefile.sys is your
swap file so you're sort of stuck with that, unless you have large amounts
of RAM. To turn off Hibernate, Control Panel, Power Options, Hibernate tab
then uncheck.

Brad Loomis
San Miguel, CA

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There are 2 HUGE system files in the root C:\
they are: pagefile.sys (805,306,368meg) & hiberfil.sys (536,383,488meg) Is
this normal?
What can I do to reduce the size of these files, anything?

Part of the reason I did the reformat was to free up some space on C: which
was continually running out of space. If I am stuck with these huge files
it looks as though I will have to go through the whole re-partition,
re-installation again. Understandably I dont want to.

TIA

Leigh Jennings

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