Low discspace warning

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orcideus said:
Is there any way to disable the disturbing warning: "Low discspace"?
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Your question is equivalent to asking "Is there a way
to prevent my lungs from forcing me to breathe?".
If you don't do something immediately about your
low disk space situation then your PC is likely to
cripple itself pretty soon.

In answer to your question: Delete unwanted files,
or install a larger disk.
 
orcideus said:
Your question is equivalent to asking "Is there a way
to prevent my lungs from forcing me to breathe?".
If you don't do something immediately about your
low disk space situation then your PC is likely to
cripple itself pretty soon.

In answer to your question: Delete unwanted files,
or install a larger disk.
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My system disc has 2GB free discspace so it will not crash. It is one of my
data discs (one of some partitions) that is full - and it does not
necessarily be full when the disturbing message is shown. I am perfectly fine
by having just 100MB free discspace on that drive. I am not in need of a
popup to handle my files.
 
I suggest getting more space but this is how to do it (i take no
responsability for anothing that happens when you try this, personally i
would just leave it)

Disable Low Disk space Notification

When a hard disk is running out of disk space, Windows will
occasionally pop up a warning message in your system tray. Nothing wrong with
that, but sometimes it's just not possible to adjust the free space on the
disk (by deleting/removing files).

For example when you have your Windows paging file on a separate
hard drive, and you have Windows use that drive to capacity for the page file.


To disable the low disk space notification:

Start the Registry Editor
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \
Policies \ Explorer \
Right-click an empty space in the right pane and select New > DWORD Value
Name the new value NoLowDiskSpaceChecks
Double-click this new value, and enter 1 as it's Value data
Close the registry editor
Log off, or restart Windows for the changes to take effect
Note: This will turn of the Low Diskspace warning on all your drives!
Source
http://www.auldfart.co.uk/xptips3.html#Disable_Low_Disk_space_Notification__
 
please help how do you delete fiies on the hard drive
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Select the files in Windows Explorer that you want to delete, choose File |
delete, or right click on the group and choose delete.

From Start | Run | Help and Support search on delete files for info.
 
Don't forget that deleting in this way usually just puts files in the Recyle
Bin. Even after deleting multiple files, you may not recover any disk
space. Right click on the Recycle Bin and select "Empty Recycle Bin:" That
should get rid of the files and restore space, eliminating the low disk
space warning.

Note that if you have something like Norton System Works (as do I), some
deleted files may go into a protected area of the Recycle Bin. In addition
to the above, you also have to click "Empty Norton Protected Files", or
somethnig similar for your software. I do both when I want to restore disk
space.

HTH,
Bob
 
big said:
Please help. How do you delete fiies on the hard drive?
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Don't do it!

- Use the "Control Panel", "Add/Remove Programs" to remove anything you
don't want.

- Open My Computer, right-click the hard drive, click Properties, click
"Disk Cleanup" and select what you want removed there.
 
big said:
please help how do you delete fiies on the hard drive
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select file, press the delete key.

If you are comfortable with the stability of your system, you can delete the
uninstall files for the patches that Windows XP has installed..

http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spack.htm


Do you have hidden and system files visible?
How's your system restore settings?
Used Disk Cleanup?
Is hibernate turned on and do you use that feature?
Uninstalled unnecessary applications lately?
Moved things to external media?

Other ways to free up space..

SequoiaView
http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/

DX Hog Hunt
http://www.dvxp.com/en/Downloads.aspx

JDiskReport
http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/index.html

Those can help you visually discover where all the space is being used.

You can use an application that scans your system for log files and
temporary files and use that to get rid of those:

Ccleaner (Free!)
http://www.ccleaner.com/

You can run Disk Cleanup - built into Windows XP - to erase all but yuor
latest restore point and cleanup even more "loose files"..

How to use Disk Cleanup
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310312

You can turn off hibernation if it is on and you don't use it..

When you hibernate your computer, Windows saves the contents of the system's
memory to the hiberfil.sys file. As a result, the size of the hiberfil.sys
file will always equal the amount of physical memory in your system. If you
don't use the hibernate feature and want to recapture the space that Windows
uses for the hiberfil.sys file, perform the following steps:

- Start the Control Panel Power Options applet (go to Start, Settings,
Control Panel, and click Power Options).
- Select the Hibernate tab, clear the "Enable hibernation" check box, then
click OK; although you might think otherwise, selecting Never under the
"System hibernates" option on the Power Schemes tab doesn't delete the
hiberfil.sys file.
- Windows will remove the "System hibernates" option from the Power Schemes
tab and delete the hiberfil.sys file.

You can control how much space your System Restore can use...

1. Click Start, right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
2. Click the System Restore tab.
3. Highlight one of your drives (or C: if you only have one) and click on
the "Settings" button.
4. Change the percentage of disk space you wish to allow.. I suggest 5% or
higher.
5. Click OK.. Then Click OK again.

You can control how much space your Temporary Internet Files can utilize...

Empty your Temporary Internet Files and shrink the size it stores to a
size between 128MB and 512MB..

- Open ONE copy of Internet Explorer.
- Select TOOLS -> Internet Options.
- Under the General tab in the "Temporary Internet Files" section, do the
following:
- Click on "Delete Cookies" (click OK)
- Click on "Settings" and change the "Amount of disk space to use:" to
something between 128MB and 512MB. (Betting it is MUCH larger right
now.)
- Click OK.
- Click on "Delete Files" and select to "Delete all offline contents"
(the checkbox) and click OK. (If you had a LOT, this could take 2-10
minutes or more.)
- Once it is done, click OK, close Internet Explorer, re-open Internet
Explorer.
 
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