Selective supression of disk space low pop-up warning?

[Bob]

I recently installed a 2nd physical drive on my system. I partitioned
it into two partitions, one of which was just large enough to create a
4G page file. The pagefile is 4,263,510,016 bytes, and there are just
5,832,704 remaining on that drive partition. This was by design - I
wanted that partition to be used for nothing other than a page file.
Everything went according to plan.

However now XP gives me these relentless pop-up warnings that drive F:
is low on free disk space. Very nauseating to say the least.

I discovered a way to supress these warnings. However, the approach
seems to involve a global system setting which therefore supresses
similar warnings for my ANY drive letter, not just the one that I know
is 99.99% filled.

Just wondering if, by chance, there's a solution which supresses the
warnings only for a particular drive letter.

Here is the solution I had found. It is a REGEDIT solution:

Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Name: NoLowDiskSpaceChecks
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1 disables alerts

-Bob
Andover, MA

 

[Bob I]

I don't think it works that way since the operating system doesn't
really "work" with drive letters, and they can be assigned willy-nilly
to anything and everything.

 

[cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)]

I don't think it works that way since the operating system doesn't
really "work" with drive letters, and they can be assigned willy-nilly
to anything and everything.

No, XP does "remember" drive letters assigned to particular fixed
volumes, as tracked by volume serial number (rather than volume
label). It's just that whichever team "owned" the drive space warning
just didn't think it through properly - after all, everyone just has
one big C: for the OS, don't they? <g>

Fortunately, you can at least control System Restore status and usage
on a volume by volume basis, although you can't pre-set status of
yet-to-be-discovered volumes, and if the same volume comes back after
an absence, it will duhfault back to SR enabled, even though the drive
letter assignment will be remembered.

BTW: Volume SN are destroyed by format and file system conversion, are
retained by partition imaging, but lost on file-level copy-over. The
volume SN of C: is used as one of the monitored "lives" for the
generic model of Windows Product Activation, even though it is not a
hardware item at all, and thus subject to change on the same hardware.

Bob wrote:

The upside is as you planned; the page file is contiguous. But the
downside is that it is located further away from the base of C: than
if you'd simply let it mix in with the contents of C:. The lager C:
is, the more adverse impact this will have.

For this reason, I usually keep pagefile on C: unless I have a second
physically separate hard drive of similar performance that isn't also
being used all the time (the way that C: is).

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