spurrious low disk space warning

jeffmeyers · Joined: Aug 21, 2004 Posts: 22

Dell PC with Win XP home
On bootup, XP reports drive D: is low on disk space. That drive, of course, is Dell's recovery partition. I don't read or write to that partition, nor have I modified it. How can I tell XP to stop nagging me about this?

Jeff

goretsky

Hello,

The low disk space warning is controlled by the "NoLowDiskSpaceChecks" registry value in Policies key for Windows Explorer. It can be disabled by setting the value for this entry to "1".

Here is a Registry Editor (filename: REGEDIT.EXE) to do this:

Code:

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoLowDiskSpaceChecks"=DWORD:00000001

To use the file, highlight the block of text above and paste it into a text editor, such as Notepad (filename: NOTEPAD.EXE). Then select File -> Save As from the main menu and save the file to a location you will remember, such as the Desktop, and give it a name of "DISABLE SPACE CHECK.REG" or something similar. The filename must be typed with the quotation marks around it and must have an extension of .REG. Now close Notepad and you should see an icon for the Disable Space Check.REG file on your Desktop. Double-click on it to merge it into your system's registry. The warning message that the D: drive is low on space should no longer occur.

You may need to reboot for this change to take effect.

Regards

Aryeh Goretsky

User: inactive Posts:

That registry tweak should work, but,
I'm curious why Winders is even fussing with a partition that's basically "Hands Off".
You're supposed to do Nothing with that 'Private' partition.
It would be well advised to go into System Restore and shut down monitoring for that partition as well. If for some weird reason, Restore Points were being made for and IN that partition, they might eventually overrun the space available in it.

Just a thought,

Cheers!
Shadow Cool