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When your media device gets low on space, Vista will give you a Low Disk Space warning. This is to warn you to either clear space or get a bigger storage device soon.
This will show you how to enable or disable the Low Disk Space Warning for all drives in Vista.
Low Disk Space warning is enabled by default.
You must be logged in as an administrator to be able to do the steps in this tutorial.
1. Open the Start Menu.
2. In the white line (Start Search) area, type
regedit and press
Enter.
3. Click on
Continue in the UAC prompt.
4. In regedit, go to: (See screenshot below)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows Search\Gather
5. In the right pane, right click on
LowDiskMinimumMBytes and click on
Modify. (See screenshot above)
6. To Disable the Low Disk Space Warning A) Type 0 (number) and click on OK. (See screenshot below step 7A)
B) Go to step 8.
7. To Enable the Low Disk Space Warning A) Type c8 and click on OK. (See screenshot below)
8. In regedit, go to: (See screenshot below step 10)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows Search\Gathering Manager
9. In the left pane, click on
Gathering Manager to highlight in blue.
10. You will need to
take ownership of
Gathering Manager and "Allow" your user account "Full control" of it before continuing.
11. In the right pane of
Gathering Manager, right click on
BackOffLowDiskThresholdMB and click on
Modify. (See screenshot above)
12. To Disable the Low Disk Space Warning - A) Make it empty and click on OK. (See screenshot below step 13)
B) Go to step 14.
13. To Enable the Low Disk Space Warning A) Type c8 and click on OK. (See screenshot below)
B) Go to step 15.
14. To Disable the Low Disk Space Warning A) In regedit, go to: (See screenshot below step 14B)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies
B) In the left pane, right click on
Policies and click on
New and
Key. (See screenshot below)
C) Type Explorer and press Enter. (See screenshot below)
D) In the left pane click on Explorer.
E) In the right pane of Explorer, right click on a empty area, and click on New and DWORD (32bit) Value.
F) Type NoLowDiskSpaceChecks and press Enter. (See screenshot below)
G) In the right pane, right click on NoLowDiskSpaceChecks and click on Modify.
H) Type 1 and click on OK. (See screenshot below)
15. To Enable the Low Disk Space Warning A) In regedit, go to: (See screenshot below step 14G)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
B) In the right pane, right click on
NoLowDiskSpaceChecks and click on
Modify.
C) Type
0 (number) and click on
OK. (See screenshot above)
16. Close regedit.
That's it,