Of course sometimes, and especially if you have a hard disk or SSD of a smaller size and have less free space, you've entered one of these two (or both) files to see that take up more space (in order of several gigabytes) and that you cannot remove them normally.
So we'll explain to you what these files are, how to remove them from the system and what happens when you do them.
Pagefile.sys, a Windows wrap file
Pagefile.sys is a system file, as mentioned in its .sys extension, which is used to store the Windows distribution file. This wrap file is used by the operating system as if i Secondary RAM, a storage space on a Windows disk to copy most commonly used files and instructions for accessing them quickly.
How to delete a paper.sys file
The first thing you should do is remove this file to access system properties. To do this, go to the Control Panel and select «Program». Once there, select «Advanced application settings».
In the window that opens, you should go to the Advanced tab and, in the "Functional" section, select the "Settings …" button.
Another window will open, and in it you should go to the Advanced tab again, and under the "Visible Memory" section you will see the currently selected page.sys space. Click the "Change …" button.
Another window will be opened. It is automatically marked to automatically manage this file size, but we can check the box and, by selecting all the hard connectors we have connected to the device, check the "No wrap file" option and click the "Set" button. This will delete the file file.sys file, or leaving it takes up to 0 KB of space.
Is there anything wrong with deleting file.sys?
As we mentioned before, this file works for Windows as a secondary RAM. We can do this without risk, although for computers with low RAM (4-8 GB), you can see a decrease while the computer is using all the RAM available in the system. For computers with 16 GB of RAM or more, you won't notice the difference.
Hiberfil.sys, a "memory" of when the system becomes hibernates
Hiberfil.sys is a file where Windows dumps all information about the running processes and open files we have every time we put the computer in self-discovery mode. If you do not use that mode or you are not interested, you can delete the file to save space to the hard disk.
How to remove hiberfil.sys
To delete this file we need to do it in a special way, because we cannot select and compress it because it is a system file. The first thing you have to do is open the Command Prompt window as Administrator, and in this case you have to click the Start button and select "Command Prompt (Administrator)".
In the popup window, you simply execute the following command (type and press ENTER):
Powercfg / h is off
After that you can close the Command Prompt window and restart the computer. After doing so, the hiberfil.sys file will disappear and, with it, you will remove another GB pile from your drive.
Is there anything wrong with removing hiberfil.sys?
The only thing that happens when removing this file is that we will disable the possibility that things will cause the machine to go wrong, but everything will continue to work without interruptions and no penalties for system operation. Therefore, you can do this procedure without fear because there is no risk.
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