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Tweaking  Hardware in the registy

  1. DISK DRIVES

 

This tweak allows you to change the name and icon shown in Explorer for a specific drive letter.

  1. Open your registry and find the key below. If the key does not already exist then create it.

    Within the main key create a new sub-key with a single letter representing the drive letter of the drive to be modified. (e.g. [HKEY...\DriveIcons\D])

    Within the drive letter key create another sub-key called "DefaultIcon" (e.g. [HKEY...\DriveIcons\D\DefaultIcon]) and set the "(Default)" value to equal the fully qualified name of the icon file. If the file contains more that one icon follow it with a comma and the zero-based index of the icon (e.g. "c:\icons\myicons.dll,4").

    Create another sub-key within the drive letter key called "DefaultLabel" (e.g. [HKEY...\DriveIcons\D\DefaultLabel]) and set it's "(Default)" value to equal the label for the drive letter (e.g. "My ZIP Drive").

     


    You may need to restart Windows for the change to take effect, or press F5 to refresh My Compute

2.DISABLE WINDOWS RFEE SPACE WARNING

1.default Windows sends an administrative alert when the amount of free space remaining on a hard disk drive falls below 10 percent. This percentage can be configured using this setting.

Open your registry and find the key below.

Create a new DWORD value called "DiskSpaceThreshold" and set it to the percentage of free disk space remaining before an alert is sent.

Registry Editor Example
| Name Type Data |
| (Default) REG_SZ (value not set) |
| DiskSpaceThreshold REG_DWORD 0x00000005 (5) |
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| HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parame... |
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Settings:
System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\
Parameters]

Name: DiskSpaceThreshold
Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value: 0 - 99 percent (Default is 10)

Warning: Modifying the registry can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. We cannot guarantee that problems resulting from modifications to the registry can be solved. Use the information provided at your own risk.

Restart Windows for the changes to take effect.