My hard disk is well, really a bit of a mess. I’ve got so many partitions, that free space is now really all over the space. One of the issue I have to deal with is partitions which are nearing fullness. I’ve got 3 such partitions : Scratch Drive (Z:), which is for my Windows swap file; Games, Vol. 1 (F:), and SCDA, which is just for one game. I’ll explain that in another post.
Anyway, the problem is that Windows 7 constantly bugs me about the amount of space left on these drives. Luckily, there’s a simple registry tweak for this.
Usual Disclaimer : Since I’m not behind your chair, with a gun at your head, you can’t hold me responsible for your actions. Do what you’re doing, at your own risk. You have been warned….muhahahaha…
Open the Registry Editor by typing in ‘regedit‘, in a Run dialogue (Ctrl+R). Now, in the tree, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows -> CurrentVersion -> Policies. Right-click on the right pane, and select New -> Key, and give the name as ‘Explorer’. Now, select the Explorer key in the left pane and in the right pane, right-click -> New -> DWORD (32bit) Value. Type in the name as ‘NoLowDiskSpaceChecks’. Then right-click on this new entry and select ‘Modify’. Change the value to 1.
Then you’re done. All you’ll need to do is restart ‘explorer.exe’. Do this by entering the Task Manager, going to the Processes tab, selecting explorer.exe, and pressing Delete. Confirm it, and all your windows will magically vanish…:-P…just open the Run dialogue and type in explorer.exe, and you won’t have any more annoying pop-ups and system tray icons.
May 20, 2009 at 1:23 am
I wonder how much Seagate & Co paid Monkey Boy to get these ‘Buy More Hard Drives’ reminders put in to Windows 7.
PS – It’s so good to have you back and blogging Vivek.
May 20, 2009 at 11:10 am
I had a similar stupid problem in Vista: I had only one 80GB partition, and I was given frequent low disk space error because I had “less than 10% space remaining”. 10% of 80GB is 8GB
Wow. 8GB. Less space.
May 20, 2009 at 11:49 am
@Ankur – Thanks man…it feels good to be back. And dude, by the way, I don’t think I’ve seen a ‘Buy More Hard Drives’, message, just compress all your old files so that your PC can take an eon decompressing them when you urgently need them or something…apart from the usual deleting temporary folders thing.