Windows Vista: Turn off Hibernation and Recover Drive Space

This post was written by admin on March 6, 2008
Posted Under: Technology

Windows Vista Home Premium and Vista Home Basic: Turn off Hibernation and Recover Hard Drive Space.

If you don't use Windows Vista’s hibernation feature, disabling it can free up around 1Gb of hard disk space.

This is how to do it:
Press Windows.
Type: cmdPress and hold Ctrl + Shift.
Press Enter.
If the User Account Control dialogue appears, click Continue.
When the console window opens, you will see that it says 'Administrator' in the title bar.

This is required so that you can change the hibernation settings.

Type: powercfg -H off and then press Enter.

If you ever want to turn hibernation back on, then repeat the steps above, instead using the command: powercfg -H on.

Vista:
Disable the Sidebar to Create More Desktop Space
Users either love or hate the Windows Vista sidebar.

If you get tired of its intrusion into your desktop space then you can easily disable it, as follows:

Click Start then Control Panel.
In the left-hand pane of Control Panel, if Classic View is not selected (indicated by a bullet point), click Classic View.

Double-click the Windows Sidebar Properties.
Untick Start Sidebar when Windows starts.
Click Apply then OK.