Low Disk Space Warning - Comments

Proper upkeep (anti-virus/spyware scans, firewall and defrags)of your desk/laptop PC will usually take care of this.
If you think it may come from somewhere else, you can right click it, open it in a new window and click "properties". Check the address. If it one you trust, look at it, if not close the window and delete it.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Not sure what the "IT" refers to in your comments. The low disk space warning is not an email or browser thing...

hi how are u? eveytime i ge on my computer it all ways say low disk space c dive! why that? i cant download self it make me MAD! EMAIL ME BACK PLASES THANK YOU..

EDITOR'S NOTE: Ummm, uhhh... I'm fine thanks. Did you... umm, read the article?

My brand new HP Computer (Vista) kept giving me that low disc warning on drive D. Since I am no whiz kid, I put up with this for 3 weeks thinking I was the problem. I finally took it back to Best Buy and they replaced it!

I think it's a pretty important warning (not to be ignored/disabled)--at least on C: or the system drive. Is there no way to tell Windows to give the warnings only for the system drive? I've never gotten low disk space warnings on my secondary drives like my new external hard disk, but it would annoy me tremendously to get a lowdiskspace warning for any drive other than the system drive.

Does "Vista" by any chance allow you to set the drive for which you want a lowdiskspace warning? This is so obvious as to be idiotic, but I'm curious.

Back when XP and previous systems were new, most people still had only one hard drive so the warning was almost always on your system drive. Now many people have several hard drives, so a newer OS should recognize that and let you configure. You ought to also configure it--skip the 200MB warning and give me only the 80MB and 50 MB warnings.

It may also depend on what the user is doing at the tiem. Some antimalware scanners tend to leave horrendous numbers of temp files on the PC. I just encountered this the other day when an online scanner put almost 12GB of temp files on my C drive. So ignore these warnings at your own risk.

My new work PC has been issuing these warnings every couple of days, despite the fact that the disk (there's only one) is about 80% free. Our IT department told me not to worry about it, but couldn't (or didn't want to) tell me why XP is sending out these false alarms. Any ideas?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Is there more than one partition on the disk? That could do it.

I started defrag my system when it said I only had 193 MB of free space out of the 200. The next day it said 130. Now it says 90. I have tried to eliminate what I can. How else should I get rid of stuff?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Have you tried Control Panel to remove unwanted software packages?

If you want your computer to run well, then you really should leave 15 - 20 percent of free space on each drive. This space is needed for the system to move files while defragmenting.

EDITOR'S NOTE: That's not a bad idea, but I'm not sure it's a necessity. A good defragger will run with only 1% free space on the disk.

"You are running out of disk space on Recovery (D:). To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files, click here": I clicked, deleted the files on the C: drive; but I don't know what or how to delete on the D: drive. These warnings are driving me bananas. Please help!

EDITOR'S NOTE: Sounds like you should disable the Low Disk Space warning. See instructions in this article.

I've been getting this message on my computer too. "...disk space on Recovery (D:)" I am working with Windows XP. I have gone to D.....and done everything I can but no new space. It only offers to remove Windows Components you don't use, doesn't let me know which ones I don't use so I am afraid to remove any....I ignore, but it pops up all the time. I only have one backup restore point. I have McAfee thru my internet provider and I think it also backs up....should I disable this? Could it be the reason D is clogged up?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Sounds like you could safely ignore or disable the warning.