Win XP, how do I get rid of the hibernation file?

[joecheung1]

I was just wondering does anyone know how to get rid of the hibernation file on drive c:\? It's the drive where I installed the os on.
It's eating up 500 mb of my hard drive and I'm trying to compress all the file on the drive into one small image file that I can burn onto a cd.
Any help would be appreciated tremendously.
Thanks,
Joe

[BipolarBill]

Have you disabled hibernation in Power Options?

[Easy]

What does hiberfil.sys do? That's 129,660kb, hidden, system, and is on F: drive (XP)

then I thought "why not ask XP?, instead of keep hassling you guys all the time - that is what the help & support's for..."

I thought people might be interested in the answer:

"Shutdown: Clear virtual memory pagefile
Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Options

Description
Determines whether the virtual memory pagefile is cleared when the system is shut down.

Virtual memory support uses a system pagefile to swap pages of memory to disk when they are not used. On a running system, this pagefile is opened exclusively by the operating system, and it is well protected. However, systems that are configured to allow booting to other operating systems might have to make sure that the system pagefile is wiped clean when this system shuts down. This ensures that sensitive information from process memory that might go into the pagefile is not available to an unauthorized user who manages to directly access the pagefile.

When this policy is enabled, it causes the system pagefile to be cleared upon clean shutdown. If you enable this security option, the hibernation file (hiberfil.sys) is also zeroed out when hibernation is disabled on a portable computer system."

Any use?

Easy