I'm running Win7 Pro x64. I have an SSD and 10GB RAM. I don't like having hiberfil.sys burn so much space and never use hibernation.
Disabling all hibernation features via Control Panel doesn't get rid of the file, or allow me to delete it.
Running "powercfg -h off" from an elevated prompt...
I have installed Win7 RTM on a second disk. I use a bootloader to boot to the second disk. The install goes really well.
After the install is finished and I am presented with the desktop for the first time. The Sleep (Hybrid Sleep) mode that is the default works fine. Windows goes to sleep...
As the description states, it is best to run while the system is idle, much like the WinSat "Windows Experience Index" process.
Running powercfg -energy, you end up with results like this:
Enabling tracing for 60 seconds...
Observing system behavior...
Analyzing trace data...
Analysis...
The following is an instruction on how to have some semblance of a Power Management group policy in an environment operating under Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Unfortunately, the Power Management options in XP, as opposed to Vista, are stored in binary files, thereby making it difficult...
active directory
batch script
command line
configuration
custom power settings
electricity costs
energy efficiency
group policy
hibernation
legacy devices
power management
power options
powercfg
scheduled task
software management
standby mode
system administration
user permissions
windows server
windows xp
In the pre beta 6801 build the powercfg -energy command line command saved a file called energy-report.html to the system32 file folder. It worked perfectly. But now in the beta build when i ran the command it successfully runs and i go search for the file and when i search it shows up but says...