Article ID: 555622 - Last Review: May 23, 2006 - Revision: 1.0

How to remove the low disk space warning

Author: Soumitra Sengupta MVP

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SUMMARY

When a partition is low on free space (less than 200MB of free space), the low disc space warning pop ups repeatedly.

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In KB Article-300044;http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;300044 the low space related Balloon Messages as well as the Warning ,Messages have been described.

To remove this irritating pop up do the following:-

1] Start>Run>Regedit>OK

2]Now navigate to the following location:-

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

3]Right Click on the blank area of the right pane of the registry editor and create a new DWORD Value by selecting New>DWORD Value.

4]Name this newly created DWORD Value -"NoLowDiscSpaceChecks"

5]Now double-click on the new DWORD and assign it the value 1.

6]Close the registry editor and restart the system.

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APPLIES TO

Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2002
Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition

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