Disable low disk space notification

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Pablo Montilla

I have a whole partition dedicated to my pagefile, and it has the barely
minimum left of free space. I keep getting the low disk space notification
for it, is there any way to disable it? I've tried the XP registry
approach, with no luck...any ideas?

I'm running Vista Home Premium.

Regards,
Pablo

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left is me and the words Mostly Harmless. Any second now all that will be
left is Mostly Harmless. And yesterday the planet seemed to be going so
well.
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Pablo Montilla
www.odyssey.com.uy
 
How big is the partition?
Is it on the same drive as the OS?
If, so it's a total waste of time to have the pagefile on a partition that is on the same
disk as the OS.
 
The page file should either be left where it is on the boot partition, OR on
another installed PHYSICAL drive.. one should not create a special partition
for it..


Pablo Montilla said:
I have a whole partition dedicated to my pagefile, and it has the barely
minimum left of free space. I keep getting the low disk space notification
for it, is there any way to disable it? I've tried the XP registry
approach, with no luck...any ideas?

I'm running Vista Home Premium.

Regards,
Pablo

--


This is terrific, Nelson's Column has gone, McDonald's has gone, all
that's
left is me and the words Mostly Harmless. Any second now all that will be
left is Mostly Harmless. And yesterday the planet seemed to be going so
well.
-- The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Pablo Montilla
www.odyssey.com.uy
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--


Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
 
How big is the partition?
Is it on the same drive as the OS?
If, so it's a total waste of time to have the pagefile on a partition
that is on the same
disk as the OS.
Click to expand...

I always had the impression that pagefile fragmented, having a whole
partition for it would make that impossible. Is that not the case?

Anyway, even if I don't need to put the pagefile in other partition, isn't
there a way to disable the frigging low disk space baloon?

Thanks,
Pablo

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just a mediocre brain, something like the president of American Telephone
and Telegraph Company.
-- Alan Turing on the possibilities of a thinking machine, 1943

Pablo Montilla
www.odyssey.com.uy
 
Only if you were to increase the size of the page file after it has been created.
When the page file is created it is set at a fixed size on the disk.
However, just because its set at 1,500mb for example, it is very seldom that the full
1,500mb is used if you have sufficient RAM

On my machine with a gig of RAM the page file is set at 1,500 mb
Normal useage runs about 60 to 70 MB
 
How big is the partition?
Is it on the same drive as the OS?
If, so it's a total waste of time to have the pagefile on a partition that is on the same
disk as the OS.
Click to expand...



It's *worse* than "a total waste of time." It puts the page file
farther away from the other frequently-used files on the drive,
thereby increasing the time taken for head movement to and from it.
The result is *decreased* performance.
 
Only if you were to increase the size of the page file after it has been
created.
When the page file is created it is set at a fixed size on the disk.
However, just because its set at 1,500mb for example, it is very seldom
that the full
1,500mb is used if you have sufficient RAM

On my machine with a gig of RAM the page file is set at 1,500 mb
Normal useage runs about 60 to 70 MB
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Ummm...OK then, my understanding was correct. On a typical day, my poor
machine uses around 2.5 and 3.0 gigs...;)

Thanks,
Pablo
--


I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones
use like inspiration and what Bog sends.
-- Alex, from A Clockwork Orange

Pablo Montilla
www.odyssey.com.uy
 
It's *worse* than "a total waste of time." It puts the page file
farther away from the other frequently-used files on the drive,
thereby increasing the time taken for head movement to and from it.
The result is *decreased* performance.
Click to expand...

OK, that's a good reason not to do that...but you still haven't answered
my question. Any ideas?

Regards,
Pablo

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I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones
use like inspiration and what Bog sends.
-- Alex, from A Clockwork Orange

Pablo Montilla
www.odyssey.com.uy
 
So move the pagefile back to C and the warning will stop..


Pablo Montilla said:
I've tried that already, seems not to be working on Vista.

Is that possible, or I'm missing something (apart from the fact that its
stupid to have a pagefile partition, we've already settled that, OK? ;).

Thanks,
Pablo
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You can dodge and duck for only so long, Hillary Clinton.

Pablo Montilla
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Mike Hall
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So move the pagefile back to C and the warning will stop..
Click to expand...

Yes, but now I'm curious. ;) Is there a way to disable that putrid popup?

Thanks,
Pablo

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You can dodge and duck for only so long, Hillary Clinton.

Pablo Montilla
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Sorry, I didn't know you had tried it.

Pablo Montilla said:
Yup, I've tried that, and didn't work. Are you sure that still works on
Vista?

Regards,
Pablo
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
-- Socrates

Pablo Montilla
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Pablo, I didn't see where or if you had mentioned how big the partion was
and how big the swap file was?

I'm curious because I'm planning to add a second drive to and was planning
on having a small 1st partion for the pagefile and the rest for data files.
The thinking being: 1) performance boost of having swap on a different SATA
drive than system, 2) don't have to back up pagefile.sys in image backups,
and 3) a bit of control over where pagefile.sys lands on the 2nd drive, my
understanding being that the 1st partitions accessed faster than the other
edge of the disk.

Unless someone tells me this is also a bad idea I figured I'd at least try
to learn from your issue and size the partion and swapfile large enough so
as to avoid the warning.
 
Pablo

It is anything BUT a putrid popup.. one day it will warn you of
impending data loss..
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OK, OK, bad wording, sorry about that. In this particular case, it is
annoying, and it would be cool if it was possible to disable it. Don't
take it personally, I'm just trying to learn.

Regards,
Pablo
--


The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
-- Socrates

Pablo Montilla
www.odyssey.com.uy
 
It's a 2.1Gb partition with 67.5Mb of free space. Still no one could
answer if it's possible to remove the message, and the Windows XP registry
workaround didn't worked for me.

Regards,
Pablo
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1. That's the way we've always done it around here.
2. I'm so busy, I just forgot.
3. It didn't appear that important.
4. That's someone else's job, not mine.
5. No one gave me the go-ahead.
6. I just work here, I'm not paid to make decisions.
7. I didn't realize you were in a hurry for it.
8. I've got better things to do with my time.
9. That's not part of my department.
10. You'll have to ask the boss.
11. I didn't think it would make any difference.
12. Let someone else do the dirty work.
-- Standard List Of Multi-Purpose Excuses
-- This is just a partial list, we're sure you can add a few more.

Pablo Montilla
www.odyssey.com.uy
 
Pablo

When a disk fills to capacity, the chances of losing ALL of the files on it
becomes very high, so you do not ever want to disable it. What you have to
do is to rectify the problem of which you are being warned. In this case,
you need to move the page file off of the partition and put it back into C.
The page file will like you for it, and the warning will cease. You could of
course reduce the page file size to 75% of the partition size, but you still
have a less than good page file..


Pablo Montilla said:
OK, OK, bad wording, sorry about that. In this particular case, it is
annoying, and it would be cool if it was possible to disable it. Don't
take it personally, I'm just trying to learn.

Regards,
Pablo
--


The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
-- Socrates

Pablo Montilla
www.odyssey.com.uy
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Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
 
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