Step 1: Open Command Prompt as administrator by typing CMD in the Start/taskbar search field, right-click on Command Prompt entry and then click Run as administrator. Here is how to disable the hibernation feature And if you don’t want to turn it off, consider reducing the size of the hibernation file. So, make sure that it’s turned off if you don’t use it. Remember that hibernation feature is turned on by default in Windows 10 but it’s not added to the Start menu by default. For instance, if your PC is equipped with 8 GB of RAM, the hibernation feature takes about 7 GB of disk space. Hibernation feature, when turned on, creates hyberfil.sys file which takes about the size of the RAM installed on your PC. Turn off hibernation to free up drive spaceīefore you start complaining, let us make it clear that we suggest to turn off the hibernation feature only if you are not using it or don’t know what the hibernation feature is.

Refer to our how to uninstall default apps in Windows 10 guide for instructions. You can also consider uninstalling not so useful native apps to free up drive space in Windows 10.

Windows 10 reclaim disk space