Free Up Some Hard Drive Space

If you are hurting for a little extra hard drive space, first of all, I'd be a little surprised due to the large size of hard drives these days. This may be more of an issue on a laptop. On a Windows machine, a nice little file called "hiberfil.sys" allows you to put your computer into "hibernation" when it's not being used. Supposedly this is to allow for a quicker restart from what you were previously working on without having to wait for a complete boot. It also saves the state of your computer so you don't have to re-open everything you were working on. There may be advantages to this, but that file can take up significant space. My laptop was using around 4GB simply to allow me that convenience. By going into the power settings and un-checking the "Enable hibernation" box, that file will be removed and will no longer be taking up space, no matter how precious that space may be.