
You can create new system restore points successfully but those restore points are also being deleted when rebooting Windows. You set Windows 7 to create System Restore points but notice that your system restore points have been deleted when you restart your computer. Parameter 3 is equal to the number of bytes of data that remain to compress and write to the hibernation file.Windows 7 Starter Windows 7 Home Basic Windows 7 Home Premium Windows 7 Enterprise Windows 7 Professional Windows 7 Ultimate Mais.Parameter 2 is equal to the size of the hibernation file in bytes.Parameter 1 is always equal to 0x0000000B.The parameters provide the following information: If Windows fails to hibernate because the hibernation file is too small, a Stop error occurs and the following message appears: To re-enable Hibernate with a file size equal to 75 percent of total physical memory, use the /HIBERNATE and /SIZE parameters:Ĭ:\>PowerCfg.exe /HIBERNATE /SIZE 75 Hibernation Failure Caused by Insufficient Hiberfile Size To disable hibernate for the system, use the /HIBERNATE parameter with the “off” value: To configure the hibernation file size to 75 percent, use the following command: To configure the hibernation file size to 100 percent, use the following command: Sizes smaller than 75 percent of total physical memory are not recommended for production or retail systems. You can configure the hibernation file to a size between 50 and 100 percent of physical memory. The system drive contains the Windows installation and is defined by the %SystemDrive% environment variable. You can confirm the size by checking the size of Hiberfil.sys in the root directory of the system drive.

By default, on a system with 4 GB of physical memory, the hibernation file is 3 GB or 75 percent of total physical memory. Specify the size of the hibernation file as a percentage of total physical memory. You must run PowerCfg from an elevated command prompt and include the /HIBERNATE and /SIZE parameters, as follows:Ĭ:\>PowerCfg.exe /HIBERNATE /SIZE percentage To configure the size of the hibernation file, use the PowerCfg command-line utility that is included with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
