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What is the limit for the theshold for Windows 7 to trigger a "low space" warning? (here indicated by the red bar) and is it customiseable? I think it is 10% but I am not sure and can't find any definitive result/answer.

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It appears that it's either 10% or 15%, depending on windows version.

(And apparently there is no way to change it)

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Hmm, looks like it is 10% after all then. This was one of the things I did look at but was hoping for a bit more. – tombull89 Jan 17 '11 at 19:04
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This article says a registry modification can disable the warning

http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/disable-low-disk-space-notification-alert-in-windows-7-vista/

Add a new DWORD (32bit) value to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

right click the Explorer and choose New > DWORD (32bit) Value and name this as NoLowDiskSpaceChecks

Double click the new DWORD and set its value to 1.

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Thanks for the link, although I'm more interested in finding out the threshold rather than disabling the warning. – tombull89 Jan 17 '11 at 19:03
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