Monday, November 13, 2006

Mysterious "sys" Files

I had Checked the options in the folder option dialog from the tools menu .
1.Show hidden Folders and files
2.Show hidden system files .

And in the drive were the OS is installed i saw two main files:-
1.hiberfil.sys
2.pagefile.sys

Now wat are these files they look pretty big in size.I ventured out to explore and here are my findings
1. hiberfil.sys
Wen you enable hibernation in your system ,the system compresses the system info into this file so that at startup it can load up (for persistence).
2. pagefile.sys.
This is used by the system for VM and swaping .you can set the size of this file .

More info on this will be put shortly .

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