Saturday, April 22, 2006

Removing Low Disk Space Checks (Windows XP)

That's it! It finally pissed me off to the point where I went online and found the way to disable that Windows' popup message to remind you that the disk space is low. I know myself when I am close to zero since I am the one who is filling up the hard drive. I agree that this message might be helpful to some newbie Windows users; however, I also believe that there should be a gui option to disable it - for those who do not touch registry too often and also who do not want the message to appear.

Here is how you can do it.

  1. START -> Run...
  2. Type 'regedit' and hit Enter
  3. In regedit application, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows -> CurrentVersion -> Policies -> Explorer
  4. Create a DWORD value named "NoLowDiskSpaceChecks"
  5. Double-click it and set its value to 1.
  6. I haven't seen the message since then (Windows might need to be restarted first)
Update: Found another easy solution in one line. Read at Downloadsquad.

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