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Trying to stop low disk space warning via regedit: need permission
My system drive has a lot of free space on it. I have a scratch disk which is full of cache for a video editing program. It's always going to be full for as long as I have any videos that I'm editing. I would like Windows to stop telling me that the disk is full; Windows has no business on that drive; there is nothing there but video cache.
My search has led me to this thread with the following instructions: Windows 10 - disable the low disk space warning? - Microsoft Insider Previews - Neowin Forums
I cannot follow the instructions due to a permissions issue. I ran regedit.exe as administrator to gain elevated permissions but the write access for the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows Search\Gather is granted only to TrustedInstaller and WSearch while SYSTEM has "special permissions". Administrators and Users have Read only permission. The ownership is given as TrustedInstaller.Login as "Administrator" LowDiskMinimumMBytes DWORD 0 --> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows Search\Gather
Then
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows Search\Gathering Manager
take ownership of "Gathering Manager" and assign the ACL rights for the local administrator account (NOT a user account). Modify "BackOffLowDiskThresholdMB" set to 0x00 (0)
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Restore ownership and ACL to the way they were. Not required,.
Ensure that your NoLowDiskSpaceChecks value is DWORD and not string or another type: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoLowDiskSpaceChecks = DWORD 0x01
How can I edit this key? Thanks.