Windows 2008 server came with very exciting features and one of them was the by default hibernation. Hibernation on a production server doesn’t make any sense but Microsoft logic, hibernation can take as much as space required by the page file and even greater so it may lead to a complete space blockage at the system drive of server so its better to disable this feature and get everything working in a smooth manner. How you can do this, there is a very simple command which you have to issue on a command prompt only trick that you need on windows 2008 server is to start the command prompt with administrator privileges.
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Go to start menu and then go to Command prompt
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Right click on the Command Prompt and choose the option Run as Administrator
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Open the command prompt and issue the under given command:
powercfg.exe -h off
Here you goes, its done, now you can check that you have some extra Giga bytes available on your system disk.
