Windows: Cancel Disk Capacity Warning

When the Windows XP operating system was released, what Microsoft has been trying to do is to find ways to make it foolish - adding a variety of ring tones and whistles to alert users to various Trouble with trouble. One of them is the Low Disk Space Notification. Although it was originally useful, it would be annoying in the vast majority of cases. Here's how to disable this warning.

First of all, why is this warning?

name suggests, disk capacity shortage prompts warning system is used to notify users when hard disk capacity is about used up. Especially for the main system drive, this is very important to avoid data loss caused by disk fullness. If this happens while the user's main system drive is working, it will cause the system swap file space to overflow. This in turn causes the system to fail to load the program properly or to quit the program. Running out of free disk space can cause system crashes and data loss.

With the reduction of free disk space, Windows XP will be more and more annoying. When the available disk space is less than 200MB, Windows XP will alert you each time it starts. If the available disk space is less than 80MB, XP will notify you every four hours until the available disk space exceeds 80MB. Once less than 50MB, XP will bother you every 5 minutes until the situation is eliminated.

If you have a separate set of user data disk drive on their workstations, and to the importance of preventing overflow of disk space for the user has been described so often warned of insufficient capacity will be greatly reduced efficiency. Users do not necessarily need to be repeatedly reminded by the operating system when they already know that there is little space. At the same time, frequent reminders can cause a dramatic deterioration in system performance on systems where the system configuration is close to or in a minimal configuration. Because XP will take time to check for free disks, and these times should be used to complete other tasks.

Close warning

You need to modify the system registry to turn off this warning. First, start the Registry Editor: select "Run" in the "Start" menu and type "regedit" in the text box, then click "OK". When you open the Registry Editor, look for the following entry in the left column:

HKEY CURRENT USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\PolicIEs\\Explorer

In the right column, view the key name. The key value for NoLowDiskSpaceChecks. If this value exists, it should be set to 0, which is also the default value for this key. Change it by double-clicking on the key name. You can view the Edit String interface, enter 1 in the Value field and click OK.

If this key does not exist, you will need to add this key. Select "New | in the Edit menu  DWord Value". The new value will appear on the right and prompt you to enter the key name. Enter NoLowDiskSpaceChecks and press Enter. Make sure you are not using spaces between words, this is a very long variable name.

Double-click the new key value. You can see the Edit DWord Value screen, enter 1 in the value field and click “OK.” When you complete the above steps, the registry screen should look like Figure A:


Figure A: Add NoLowDiskSpaceChecks to the registry

Close the registry when you are done. Your changes to the registry will be saved automatically. Restart your computer. When your computer restarts, those nasty reminders have become a thing of the past. However, be sure to remember to remind users to see if their computer disk space is almost full.

Windows 9x is better than XP< BR>
In most cases, Windows XP includes more features and is easier to use than Windows 98. But this is an exception. Although Windows 98 does not have an accurate warning of insufficient disk space, it can In the system The Disk Cleanup Wizard is automatically launched when the space is about to be used. Compared to the XP operating system, it is much simpler to disable the disk space shortage warning in Windows 98 by turning off this feature.

You can click Start |  Programs |  AccessorIEs |  System Tools |  Disk Cleanup "to close the Windows98 insufficient disk space warning prompt when the Disk Cleanup window appears, click the Settings tab, shown in Figure B




Figure B...: It is much easier to disable the low disk space warning warning under Windows 98

Remove the check mark from the "If This Drive Runs Low..." check box, and then click OK. Now you can detect the disk space yourself without worrying Windows will make decisions for you