# turning off windows "drive space low" dialog? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [June 27, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/turning-off-windows-drive-space-low-dialog/13878 "2006-06-27T15:25:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/turning-off-windows-drive-space-low-dialog/13878/1 "2006-06-27T15:25:39Z")
I have a partition setup ONLY for software backup (nero, drivers, office, ect, ect)… pretty much stuff that I’ll only need on a clean install (I also have them backed up on CD’s somewhere). at any rate, because the partition is only a gig in size, I keep getting the annoying “drive space on drive e: low” message in my taskbar and it wants me to do a disk cleanup (shit, I have like 30-40 gigs free on c: I believe so it really makes no difference to the OS)… is there anyway to disable this? ---
**Author:** ![Locutus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/locutus/32/7574_2.png) [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 3:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/turning-off-windows-drive-space-low-dialog/13878/2 "2006-06-27T15:53:42Z")
i sure there is a key in the registry for “notification” no time to look now… sry ---
**Author:** ![tour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f07891/32.png) [@tour](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/tour)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 6:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/turning-off-windows-drive-space-low-dialog/13878/3 "2006-06-27T18:11:22Z")
goto my computer, right click on that drive, goto properties, click disk qouta tab and disable ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 2:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/turning-off-windows-drive-space-low-dialog/13878/4 "2006-06-28T14:06:21Z")
I dont have that tab 😕 using xp pro sp2 (media center edition) ---
**Author:** ![BuickGN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/buickgn/32/7200_2.png) [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/turning-off-windows-drive-space-low-dialog/13878/5 "2006-06-28T14:24:06Z")
start regedit, expand HKEY\_CURRENT\_USER and in Software – Microsoft – Windows – CurrentVersion – Policies - Explorer, and set the value of NoLowDiskSpaceChecks to DWORD = 1 _sigh_ want me to come over and do it for ya too? lol ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 2:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/turning-off-windows-drive-space-low-dialog/13878/6 "2006-06-28T14:41:08Z")
dude… what the f is up with my version of winders? :wtf: I dont know if adding it is too smart… fing wierd edit: possibly because I havent activated windows yet? now that I think about it, the computers’ been acting strange lately. Last night when I was minimizing windows, they weren’t going to the taskbar (on either screen). I was having to alt+tab it ---
**Author:** ![BuickGN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/buickgn/32/7200_2.png) [@BuickGN](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BuickGN)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 2:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/turning-off-windows-drive-space-low-dialog/13878/7 "2006-06-28T14:44:44Z")
just add the damn thing pussy 🙂 remove it if it fucks up ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 2:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/turning-off-windows-drive-space-low-dialog/13878/8 "2006-06-28T14:48:00Z")
adding it… I guess (from what I read) it’s ok to do