Disable Windows low disk space warning in one line

by Grant Robertson Feb 23rd 2007

I've had it up to my eyeballs with the nagging Windows low disk space warning and offers from my helpful operating system to clean up the junk I have lying around. If you have a drive or two that remains constantly on the edge of full for good reason, you probably share my sentiment.

I went looking for a solution, and I found a few. Most of them involved lengthy descriptions of how to navigate the registry just to add the "NoLowDiskSpaceChecks" key. Here's a much easier solution; one command line you can cut and paste into any open command prompt window.

REM copy here 
regini HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer "NoLowDiskSpaceChecks" = REG_DWORD 1 
REM end copy here

(REM lines added to make this easier to copy correctly)

Tags: disk space warning, DiskSpaceWarning, hacks, low disk space, low space nag, low space warning, LowDiskSpace, LowSpaceNag, LowSpaceWarning, nags, registry hacks, RegistryHacks

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

yhancik said 9:12AM on 2-24-2007

you can change this through TweakUI too

kappuch said 5:14PM on 2-28-2007

ok, so you can do this through TweakUI, mind showing us?

donna dunn said 6:24PM on 4-28-2007

how do i get rid of bar that keeps coming up low disk space....help....thank you Donna Dunn

donna dunn said 7:33PM on 4-28-2007

where is this window that i download get rid of this bar

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