What Are These Huge Files on My System?

Here’s some quick information to probably serve as a reminder for everyone. I saw these two files on my system and wondered what they were for:

pagefile.sys
hiberfil.sys

With names like those and the listing of them as a System file type, it’s at least a little obvious that these aren’t just some random temp file you can easily delete. A quick search found this information about these two files and more information about them.
pagefile.sys
This file is used by Windows as a virtual memory file to extend the capabilities and functions of a system with what in essence works like virtual RAM. …read more