Defragging hyberfile.sys

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My laptop boot partition is only 15GB. I rarely defrag, but the system clogged up pretty badly lately so I cleaned it up a little and it's much better now. The problem is HYBERFILE.SYS, a 2GB+ file that is in >1600 fragments spread all over the drive. (I must have hibernated at some point with close to zero free space to get it that fragged.) I seem to remember that there is a way to simply delete it and let the system recreate it. Can anyone remember the routine?

(Win 2000, NTFS partition, if it matters.)
 
Easy as that: Control panel, power options, hybernate, un-tick "enable hibernation support". You don't even have to reboot.

Duh: I forgot to look under power options. For some reason, I looked in about three other places, then figured I'd rather ask here than buggerise around on Google. (You get better answers here. Plus the company is good.)

Thanks FB & TheSwede!
 
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