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DISABLING THE LOW ON DISK SPACE MESSAGE

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by justme2007 1 view

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My computer is always low on disk space but I don't need any more so I don't care, but the reminder to run disk clean up and delete programs is getting annoying. When I saw a Win 9x techmail on the subject I was relieved. However I run Windows ME and so I can't turn off this option the same way. Is there any way to turn it off with Windows ME? If you could tell me I would absolutely love it!

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by richard_barsby

Hi the reason the pc reports low disk space is that when the memory becomes full windows uses a swap file to swap the data from memory to disk and visa versa, if the hard drive space becomes to small as to allow an effective swap file size then windows will warn you if you continue to use a system like this you may at sometime suffer from a crash which will loose any data that you were working on.

Hope this helps

Rich

by justme2007

Thankyou for your effort but I am willing to risk a crash to get rid of the message. The message has been appearing for quite some time and I haven't uninstalled any programs. I haven't had very many crashes either. I also save my work quite often.

by justme2007

I tried what the web site said (and I did restart) and the message still came up. One thing to note. The registry key was already there (but set to 0) so I just changed it to 4 (the code for drive C). Maybe the codes are different for Win ME? Thanks for your effort.

by bora

I don't know how much RAM do you have in your machine, but I solved in three occasions simmilar problems like your on PC-s with 128MB and 192MB RAM and running W98.
If you have problem with HDD running low on free space and you have enough RAM, go to: START/RUN/type=SYSEDIT/open SYSTEM.INI/scroll to "386Enh" section and add following: ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1 to force Windows to first use whole available ram before using swap file on HDD. To help that proces further and force Windows to unload all unneeded DLL-s from closed and finished programs, go to:
START/RUN/tupe REGEDIT/select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Explorer and there you should create a new sub-key named "AlwaysUnloadDll" and set the default value to equal "1" by right clicking on that new sub-key and select "MODIFY" and enter number 1. This works with Win98.

Bora

by justme2007

Sorry that won't work for my computer. I only have 64MB RAM and I am constantly low (average free RAM during normal use about 10 MB).

by kirill lozovatsky

I've got your mail, and I'm very ineresting in how you configure code for WinME. I tryed to find something mor about this problem for winMe (I'm interesting in this question too, because of my job), but unfortunatly, I got nothing. So, I'l be glad to find here the exact answer, nevermind who will get the points.

Thank you for your e-mail.

by justme2007

The Registry key is named exactly the same as listed on that web site you gave. In fact the key was already there. Anyway, the code I used was 3. I figure that 3 corresponds to C (1,A;2,B;3,C;etc.) and 0 means don't disable. Since I changed it to 3 I haven't had the big flashy message appear (Although the icon still appears in the place by the clock, I just forgot the name). Thankyou for your help. Did you know there was a Win9x techmail about disabling Low Disk Space Warning?The date for that techmail was Wednesday, July 25, 2001 just incase you want to look it up. Thanks again.

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