Disable Hibernation on Win7 and Save Disk Space

Windows uses the Hiberfil.sys (located on root of C:\) file to store a copy of the system memory on the hard disk when the hybrid sleep setting is turned on and this file is approximately equal to the memory (RAM) is installed on the computer.
Mine is about 8 GB and I never hibernate my machine, so the logical action is to disable it.
cmd.exe /c powercfg.exe /hibernate off

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