(Incidentally, I removed the "Hibernate files" on my own laptop, and as I recall it was a single (completely unannouced) file called "hibernat.dat" under some stupid invisible system directory like C:\System, simply because they're a goddamn memory drag on a laptop with a small disk. Essentially, it's 1:1 (for no very good reason, but I'm not going to get into compression algorithms right now), and therefore the file on disk is the same size as the amount of RAM you have. I'd guess that's, say, 4GB. It used to be a lot of hard disk space, but not so much these days.
(Getting it back from hibernation? Another issue again. And nothing at all to do with your OS, other than the fact that Windows -- yes, Vista! -- was deliberately designed around this obvious consumer headache. Unfortunately, Microsoft assumed that Samsung and other makers of Solid State Drives would step up to the plate and deliver, and built Vista accordingly. It didn't happen. Without an SSD, and on any operating system you care to name, the best that hibernation can do is to store 4GB of RAM on disk and painfully spin the goddamn thing back up again when you re-open the case.
(We live in an imperfect world. Some OSes that were close to perfection have died along the way, for various rather boring commercial reasons. Some survive, and work on a sort of Benthamite principle. Some, mostly based on Linux, are a fucking abortion just waiting for an accident to happen.)
Re: Mysteries of Stupid Geek Universes
(Getting it back from hibernation? Another issue again. And nothing at all to do with your OS, other than the fact that Windows -- yes, Vista! -- was deliberately designed around this obvious consumer headache. Unfortunately, Microsoft assumed that Samsung and other makers of Solid State Drives would step up to the plate and deliver, and built Vista accordingly. It didn't happen. Without an SSD, and on any operating system you care to name, the best that hibernation can do is to store 4GB of RAM on disk and painfully spin the goddamn thing back up again when you re-open the case.
(We live in an imperfect world. Some OSes that were close to perfection have died along the way, for various rather boring commercial reasons. Some survive, and work on a sort of Benthamite principle. Some, mostly based on Linux, are a fucking abortion just waiting for an accident to happen.)