Low Disk Warning

openmind's picture

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I have my HD partitioned to three partitions. The first, C, is used as a swap file and is 1052MB. I've got the page file set to 1000MB.

I'm getting a really irritating popup balloon every few minutes telling me that the space on C is low, there's around 50MB left. Now I know it's low but I don't give two hoots as I only use this partition for the page file.

Is it possible to disable this warning balloon? I'm using XP Pro

Thanks in advance

mairving's picture

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If you know how to edit the Registry, you can change the value of this using regedt32.exe:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Name: NoLowDiskSpaceChecks
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1 disables alerts

If you don't feel comfortable editing the registry, then try using TweakUI for XP.

Mark Irving
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openmind's picture

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Excellent! Thanks Mark....

I'll add that one to my list of Windows annoyances! Smiling

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That's gotta be a really looooong list!!!

Mark Hensler's picture

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What are you doing to fill a 1GB page file?

openmind's picture

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loads stuff. Just wanted to perk up 192 MB ram...

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