4th January 2002
Faster. That's what everybody's system needs to be. I don't care what the benchmarks say: if it feels faster, then it must be faster. I don't need "useless" rogue background processes telling me that I only have 200, 80, or 50 megabytes free on my hard drive(s). So, I've turned off the Low Disk Space Notification in Windows XP. Navigate to HKCU \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer in your Registry. Add a new DWORD Value to the right-hand pane and label it "NoLowDiskSpaceChecks" (sans quotes). Set this entry to "1" (again, sans quotes). Now, let's say you're running either Windows XP or 2000. These OSes will track and attempt to automatically fix broken shortcut links. For most users, this feature is handy; for others, it's not. Stop the procedure by flailing to the aforementioned Registry location. This time, create a "NoResolveTrack" DWORD value and set it to "1" (sans quotes in each instance). To reverse either setting, change the "1" to a "0" - or delete the value(s) altogether.