Low Disk Space

Christopher Nelson Wallcovering and Painting

15 years ago

All of a sudden the low disk space icon appears in the bottom right tool(task) bar.I have cleaned ever thing up that it asked for but yet it returns evey time I re start.How do I make it go away? Win xp pro Thanks

Chris

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zep516
15 years ago
How much space do you have left? Open My computer put your mouse over the LOCAL DISC a window will pop up showing the total size of the hard drive and the amount of free space left post that information.

As far as turning that warning off the only way I know of is editing the Windows Registry:

* Open your registry editor by typing " REGEDIT " in the run prompt .
* Navigate as follows : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Policies\ Explorer.
* Now Right Click in the right pane , Click New -> Dword and name it as NoLowDiskSpaceChecks. .
* Double-click on NoLowDiskSpaceChecks, and enter the value as 1, and press OK.

If you are not comfortable doing this don't do it.

Making a mistake in the registry could cause real problems.
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Christopher Nelson Wallcovering and Painting
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15 years ago
Total size 70.3 GB
Free space 58.2 GB

I can do what you said but will that negate the icon from returning when it might be needed? I cannot fathom ever running out of space,I have just about as much on here as I ever will but don't want to cause any problems down the road. I see you are also an early riser or late getting to sleep.Thanks for such a quick reply
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bpgreen
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kudzu9
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zep516
15 years ago
Copy and paste the following into Notepad, set File Name as lowdisk.reg, Save as type: set to All files and Encoding as ANSI, then save it to the desktop.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoLowDiskSpaceChecks"=dword:00000001

Double click on the file and confirm merging with Registry. Job done.
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Christopher Nelson Wallcovering and Painting
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15 years ago
Thanks to all. zep516 your solution seemed like the easiest and it worked. Now,can I delete the lowdisk icon from my desktop?

Thanks again
zep516
15 years ago
Yes, then empty recycle bin..
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Christopher Nelson Wallcovering and Painting
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15 years ago
Thanks!

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