Solved Disable change drive icon label to RED Colour?

magsood · Jan 27, 2012

Hi
Please Help me for Disabled change drive icon label to RED Colour.

Brink · Jan 27, 2012

Hello Magsood, and welcome to Seven Forums.

I'm not sure what you mean. The red bar for your C: drive indicates that it is low on free space and you need to do something about it before it runs out of space. The only way to not have the red bar is to either get a larger HDD, shrink space from another partition to add to the C: partition, or start deleting or uninstalling anything you do not want on the C: drive.

Could you please clarify what you are wanting to do?

Hope this helps for now,
Shawn

magsood · Jan 27, 2012

When a drive Is 90 percent full , red color.

Please Registry Settings for This, When a drive Is 95 percent full , red color.

Brink · Jan 28, 2012

Well, there use to be this option below to change the percentage, but it doesn't work in Windows 7. I'm not sure it's possible to change the default 10% anymore.

Error 2013 - Disk Is At Or Near Capacity

magsood · Jan 29, 2012

Thanks
Hoping for a way to Windows 7 ...

1Bowtie · Jan 29, 2012

Not sure why you would want to change it 5% it's full already at 10% free, it probably won't let you install anything now. The OS needs alittle space in order to operate.

alphanumeric · Jan 29, 2012

There are alternatives to changing the color.
Run disk cleanup to free up space.
Disable or turn off hibernation if you don't use it. That will delete the hiberfile.sys file and free up some space.
Turn System Restore off or clean up/delete your old restore points. Disk cleanup will do the cleanup for you.
Move your user profile or just your documents, pictures etc to another drive.
All of the above can be found here.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/129976-hard-disk-space-free-up-recover.html

magsood · Jan 29, 2012

C drive is not the Problem!
Another drive is 450 GB in size
45 GB Remained is the red!

Brink · Jan 29, 2012

10% of 450 Gb is 45 GB, so it's doing what it's suppose to be doing and warning you that you only have 10% of your HDD's space left before you run out. There's just no way to change that.

Britton30 · Jan 29, 2012

magsood said:
C drive is not the Problem!
Another drive is 450 GB in size
45 GB Remained is the red!

Yes that is the 10% free space warning in Windows 7. This is to protect users from accidently deleting files. As stated you will need to use some space on those other drives/partitions.

alphanumeric · Jan 29, 2012

magsood said:
C drive is not the Problem!
Another drive is 450 GB in size
45 GB Remained is the red!

I was going by the screen shot you posted that showed C in the red and lots of free space left on D.

magsood · Jan 29, 2012

alphanumeric said:
magsood said:

C drive is not the Problem!
Another drive is 450 GB in size
45 GB Remained is the red!

Click to expand...

I was going by the screen shot you posted that showed C in the red and lots of free space left on D.

ScreenShot Not For My Computer. Just to explain

magsood · Jan 29, 2012

Brink said:
There's just no way to change that.

Thanks

AddRAM · Jan 29, 2012

Since you are hardly using D: I would take 30 or 40 Gigs from it.

Ahh, never mind.

Iteejer · Oct 17, 2012

Here a solution from another user in this forum which worked for me (also confirmed working for Windows 8)
This is for people who have big drives and get the annoying red color when the disk space becomes low.

http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/23665-low-disc-space-partition-color-3.html

jonaska said:
You can actually remove the colorbar completely quite easy.

1. Run REGEDIT as administrator
2. Open HKLM\Software\Classes\Drive
3. Change the value for the key TileInfo. Remove the phrase "System.PercentFull;"
The key should read the following:
Before: prop:*System.PercentFull;System.Computer.DecoratedFreeSpace;System.Volume.FileSystem
After: prop:*System.Computer.DecoratedFreeSpace;System.Volume.FileSystem
4. Restart windows explorer (open task manager, and kill the process explorer.exe, choose File, Run and type in explorer.exe)
5. Now open Computer to see the absense of the colorbars

Note: This method does not disable the warning which occurs when free space falls below 10%. It does only remove the anoying red bars.

DeaconFrost · Oct 17, 2012

This is like asking how to disable warning lights in your car. Spend your efforts cleaning up your computer to make extra space. The performance of your computer is already slowed due to your lack of free space, and it's only going to get worse. Fix the problem, rather than worrying about hiding the warnings.

Iteejer · Oct 17, 2012

DeaconFrost said:
This is like asking how to disable warning lights in your car. Spend your efforts cleaning up your computer to make extra space. The performance of your computer is already slowed due to your lack of free space, and it's only going to get worse. Fix the problem, rather than worrying about hiding the warnings.

Well not necessarily, for instance I have a dual boot (one disk, two partitions).
Windows 8 and windows 7. And the Windows 7 partition is giving me that annoying red color bar.

I don't have any performance slowdown 'due to my lack of free space'.

Besides if you come to the point that you are going to hide these warning, then I take it you have sufficient computer knowledge and know what you are doing.

From my point of view this is completely subjective. Although Microsoft states you have to have an amount % free of disk space for defragmentation and whatnot.

That really doesn't matter in my opinion if you have a fast and stable system.

I do recommend to do this on another partition (beside your main OS partition).

But it is possible, and that is what the topicstarter asks right?

DeaconFrost · Oct 17, 2012

Iteejer said:
I don't have any performance slowdown 'due to my lack of free space'.

From my point of view this is completely subjective. Although Microsoft states you have to have an amount % free of disk space for defragmentation and whatnot.

That really doesn't matter in my opinion if you have a fast and stable system.

It's actually not subjective at all. It's been a known fact for well over a decade, and it's not Microsoft's doing. It's the way a computer handles a disk drive and how it writes files to the drive through the file system. It does have an impact on performance, and can have an impact on stability as well. It does matter, especially when we're trying to put the OP in the best position.

Now, my comments are concerning a system volume. If the drive is not the system volume, you can throw out any worries about stability.

comnut · Jun 13, 2015

DeaconFrost said:
This is like asking how to disable warning lights in your car. Spend your efforts cleaning up your computer to make extra space. The performance of your computer is already slowed due to your lack of free space, and it's only going to get worse. Fix the problem, rather than worrying about hiding the warnings.

yeah, I know its an old thread, but I came here from this link, dated only 6 days ago...

If you have just 'landed' here, I found this link *is* actually more informative..

How about if you have a car that was 'modified' by someone so a loud repetitive 'bleep' when your petrol tank (70 gallons capacity! ) says ONLY 40 gallons left- good for another 1000miles...!!!!
very irritating!

now if you have a 2 Tb (2000 Gbytes!) disk just used for storage on your PC, and you have ONLY 200G left, it would be irksome...

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