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FWIW, Shenan, my partition has 7.6GB Windows, 5 GB Doc and Settings,
4.5 GB Program Files, 3 GB '.....Files', 1 GB Norton,
and a bunch more, smaller, as reported by running FullDisk..

I looked at hiberfil.sys and it is 1.3 GB. Out of curiosity,
I would have expected this to be a file which would be created
on the fly when the system goes into hibernation, and gets
deleted routinely as having served its purpose when it comes out of
hibernation.

I'm still absorbing the rest of your advice.