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Turn off low disk space notifiation

Posted August 2003 by Steve Sinchak

If you have low disk space in your drives, then you may get annoying pop-up messages from Windows that you are low on disk space. This can get extremely annoying at times, to turn off low disk space notification follow these steps:

  1. Start regedit. (If you are unfamiliar with regedit, please refer to this FAQ)
  2. Navigate to:
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
  3. Create a new DWORD value and name it NoLowDiskSpaceChecks
  4. Right-click on this newly created value and click on Modify
  5. Enter 1 in the Value data field and click on OK
  6. Close regedit and reboot your system
  7. The low disk space messages should be gone.

Enjoy...

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