[Tutorial] How to Disable "Low Disk Space" Warning in Windows 10

By Michael | Last Updated January 03, 2024

"Low Disk Space" warning will appear at the right side of your Windows taskbar from time to time when a certain partition on your computer is going to run out of free disk space. This notification reminds you that you are running out of disk space or you are running very low on disk space, check if you can free space on this drive. As this message pops up very frequently, it is really annoying. Here you'll learn how to disable "Low Disk Space" warning in Windows 10.

Part 1: What is Low Disk Space Warning
Part 2: How to Disable Low Disk Space Warning in Windows 10

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Part 1: What is Low Disk Space Warning

"Low Disk Space" is a warning notification appearing in the Windows operating system at times which prompts users that the free space of a hard drive is going to be run out, followed by is a link where you can see if you can free space on this drive. After you see "Low Disk Space" message, you should take some actions to clean up the corresponding partition such as deleting some old or unnecessary files or removing them to other drives with enough storage space. There are several degrees of this warning respectively when free space less than 200 MB, 80 MB, 50 MB and no space remaining:

You are running out of disk space on [drive]
You are running very low on disk space on [drive]
You are running very low on disk space on [drive]
You have run out of disk space on [drive]

The notification is the same when free space less than 80 MB and 50 MB, but the less free space, the more frequently this warning appears and longer times the message stays. So is there any way to turn off Low Disk Space warning in Windows 10? Actually you can disable it through Windows Registry.

Part 2: How to Disable Low Disk Space Warning in Windows 10

How to make Windows 10 stop Low Disk Space warning? Look at here and implement this operation as per the below instructions:

Step 1: Launch the Registry Editor.

You can type regedit in the Start menu search box, double click it and tap Yes in the popup window to allow Registry Editor to make changes to your PC.

launch registry editor

Step 2: Navigate to the following registry key in the Registry Editor panel: Computer>HKEY_CURRENT_USER >Software>Microsoft> Windows>CurrentVersion >Policies>Explorer

navigate to explorer

What if there is no Explorer key under the Policies key? Create it manually! Right click Policies, click New>Key, and then rename the new key to Explorer.

create explorer key manually

Step 3: Double click to open Explorer, right click a blank space with your mouse on the right ribbon and click New>DWORD (32-bit) Value. And it will be named New Value #1 by default.

click new and then dword 32 bit value

Step 4: Rename new DWORD Value from the default name to NoLowDiskSpaceChecks. Double click it and then change the Value data from 0 to 1. Then click OK to save changes.

rename and change value data to 1

Step 5: Then you can close Registery Editor. You need to restart your computer for the new DWORD value to take effect. The above steps will help you disable Low Disk Space warning in Windows 10.

Now you know how to get rid of Low Disk Space warning in Windows 10. But if you want to re-enable Low Disk Space warning, go back to the location in Registry Editor, right click the NoLowDiscSpaceChecks value and then choose delete and verify to remove it.

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