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Turn Off the Low Disk Space Warning

Intended For
Windows XP
Windows 98
When Windows detects that one of your hard drives has too little free space, a warning appears offering to run the "Disk Cleanup" utility. Here's how to turn off this message:

Windows XP

  • Run the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE).
  • Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Policies\ Explorer.
  • If it's not there, create a DWORD value and call it NoLowDiskSpaceChecks.
  • Double-click on NoLowDiskSpaceChecks, and enter the value 1, and press OK.

Windows 98 (solution 1)

  • Open the Disk Cleanup utility (run cleanmgr.exe, or go to Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Cleanup).
  • Select the drive on which Windows is installed and click Ok.
  • Choose the Settings tab, and turn off the If this drive runs low on disk space, automatically run Disk Cleanup option
  • Click Ok when you're done - answer any subsequent prompts as desired.
  • You may have to repeat this for all your hard disks (if you have more than one).

Windows 98 (solution 2)

  • Try this article from Microsoft: Q188074.
  • It's much more of a pain than solution 1, but it might work if solution 1 doesn't.

To control the low-disk space threshhold


Written by: Annoyances.org
Last updated: Thursday, September 20, 2001

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