Disable Low Disk Space Balloon

Leon Meijer — Mon, 05 May 2008 09:17:55 GMT

I got annoyed by a low disk space balloon which pops up every x minutes. Off course it's better to increase the free disk space, but when that isn't really an option, you can use the following trick to disable this irritating balloon:

Start regedit.exe;
Browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Policies\ Explorer
If the NoLowDiskSpaceChecks object doesn't exist, create it as a DWORD;
Set NoLowDiskSpaceChecks to a value of 1;
Log off and then Log back in

Source

Hope this helps,

Open XML files in Internet Explorer in the interactive mode

Leon Meijer — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:50:59 GMT

IE7 blocks the interactive mode of XML opened files. In the interactive mode you can collapse/expand the XML nodes. If you open an XML file from your local file system, IE7 shows an information bar with this message:

"To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this webpage from
running scripts or ActiveX controls that could access your computer"

You can click on the bar and enable the ActiveX control, or enable it permanently. To do so, follow the following instructions:

Open Internet Explorer;
Open the Internet Options;
Switch to the Advanced tab page;
Scroll down and set the check box Allow active content to run in files on My Computer*;
Restart IE

Because this affects the security of your system, be sure you know what you do. I turned it on because I'm using an isolated secure development machine.

Hope this helps,

Windows

Disable Low Disk Space Balloon

Open XML files in Internet Explorer in the interactive mode