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 Obtain and install the Space Control utility. Written by: Annoyances.org Last updated: Thursday, September 20, 2001 Care to discuss this article with other Windows users? Select your operating system here, and click Continue to post your question. - Choose your OS -Windows 7Windows VistaWindows Server 2003Windows XPWindows 2000Windows MeWindows 98Windows 95 Previous discussions about this article: (open a message to see applicable responses, if any) [Windows XP] Comment about 'Turn Off the Low Disk Space Warning' (Stewart Tansley: Saturday, January 5, 2002) [Windows ME] Question about 'Turn Off the Low Disk Space Warning' (Wayne: Monday, January 14, 2002) [Windows 2000] Question about 'Turn Off the Low Disk Space Warning' (Chuck: Wednesday, January 15, 2003) [Windows XP] Question about 'Turn Off the Low Disk Space Warning' (Andre : Thursday, January 30, 2003) [Windows 98] Question about 'Turn Off the Low Disk Space Warning' (Kelly: Friday, February 14, 2003) [Windows 98] Question about 'Turn Off the Low Disk Space Warning' (Dennis: Monday, April 7, 2003) [Windows XP] Question about 'Turn Off the Low Disk Space Warning' (Ted Waters: Monday, August 16, 2004) [Windows XP] Question about 'Turn Off the Low Disk Space Warning' (RON MANLY: Thursday, October 6, 2005) [Windows Me] Question about 'Turn Off the Low Disk Space Warning' (Wally: Friday, September 1, 2006) [Windows Server 2003] Question about 'Turn Off the Low Disk Space Warning' (Daniel: Wednesday, February 7, 2007) [Windows Vista] Question about 'Turn Off the Low Disk Space Warning' (Rosa Evangelista: Monday, November 5, 2007) Return to "Simple Annoyances"