Sunday, 17 April 2016

How to remove hiberfil.sys from your computer and save space (or disable Hibernation) (with Video)

Hello, and welcome to Here's The Tech!

Are you trying to recover some space from your hard drive? And do you use Hibernate option to turn off the computer? Well then, you can save some space by removing a file - hiberfil.sys which is quite huge in size sometimes.

You can view the video tutorial on YouTube:


If you prefer instructions in text, here it is:

Step 1: Open the Command Prompt as an administrator

Step 2: Type the command powercfg -h off and press Enter.

Hibernation gets disabled, and the hiberfil.sys file is removed. You can notice more free space after this step.

Step 3: If you wish to re-enable Hibernation, simply use the command powercfg -h on in Step 2.


Please leave your queries in the comments below. Hope this helped you!

Monday, 11 April 2016

YouTube Gaming vs. Twitch.tv: One better than the other?


YouTube Gaming vs Twitch.tv



Gaming is getting bigger. Video-game walkthroughs and ‘Let’s Plays’ are slowly taking over as the most popular type of online video content, with YouTube gamers like PewDiePie and others having millions of people who’ve subscribed to them, waiting for videos of them playing video-games. We now have a neat ratio of uploaded videos and live streaming footage of people playing video games, and two platforms rule the Gaming Live-Stream: Twitch.tv and YouTube Gaming.