Disabling Low Disk Checking

Disabling Low Disk Checking Windows constantly checks to see whether there’s enough free space on your hard drive. If there isn’t, it displays a low disk space warning. The problem is, all this disk space checking uses a number of system resources, and you probably know if your disk space is low, anyway. You can speed up your PC by turning off this low disk space checking. Here’s how to do it: Step1. Open the Registry Editor. Step2. Navigate to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies key. Step3. If the Explorer key exists, select it. If not, right-click in the rightmost pane and select New, Key. Name this new key Explorer, and then select it. Step4. Right-click in the rightmost pane and select New, DWORD (32-bit) Value. Step5. Name the new DWORD NoLowDiskSpaceChecks. Step6. Right-click the new NoLowDiskSpaceChecks item and select Modify. Step7. In the Edit DWORD dialog box, change the value to 1. step8. Click OK. note A DWORD is a special type of data value used for some Registry entries.