Discover 7 surprisingly old Windows Command Prompt commands that remain valuable for PC troubleshooting and maintenance today ...

Windows: If you routinely use Hibernation mode, this trick isn't for you. If you never use Hibernate mode on your desktop or laptop, this trick will free up 4-6GB of disk space on your system disk.

Hiberfil.sys can use several GB of hard disk space. Delete the file, and it will likely return. Bill Detwiler explains how to get rid of it for good. In a previous TR Dojo Challenge question, I asked ...

If the Fast Startup has stopped working and your system performs a full shutdown, you need to follow the solutions mentioned ...

Ran a antivirus program and it said that hiberfil.sys and pagefile.sys are infected by a trojan. The program couldn't remove them since i guess they are read only. Should i remove them manually ...

I want to use the built-in backup tool to create a system image, and the space estimate it gives me seems to be just the total space used on the partition. But there's no need to save pagefile.sys and ...

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