Having low disk problem

Hey Guys,

I have a Pentium 4 pc and had installed Windows Vista on it. Whenever i restart my pc i get an icon pop up on my task bar stating having low disk space on your system. Can any one tell how to resolve this issue?

Thanks.

There is a registry value you can set to disable this feature. To disable low disk space checks, follow these steps, log off, and then log on again: Follow these steps, and then quit Registry Editor.

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.

2. Locate and then click the following key in the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

3. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.

4. Type NoLowDiskSpaceChecks, and then press ENTER.

5. On the Edit menu, click Modify.

6. Type 1, and then click OK.

System restore is what i suggest to you. Do a backup when you feel the need to and restore it when needed.Try to cleanup your drive with CCleaner.

If you are running out of disk space on your system partition (disk C) with Windows Vista, there is a way to free up large amounts of disk space with Disk Cleanup utility. First of all, you should get rid of all temporary files such as Temporary Internet files, Recycle Bin and files in Temp folder. But most disk space is occupied with shadow storage which keeps all of you restore points. To investigate how much space is allocated by shadow storage, open up command prompt and type:vssadmin list shadowstorage

You will get output like this: vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool.

Shadow Copy Storage association:-

Allocated Shadow Copy Storage is actual disk space that is occupied with shadow storage. If you don’t need all restore points and are quite satisfied with most recent one, you can delete all previous points and free up most of the disk space. In order to do so, click Clean up button and then click OK. Then check again how much free disk space is there on your system partition, you should notice a great change. Please make sure that you know what you are doing since deleted restore point can not be restored once you cleaned them up.

This will help you to resolve your issue.