Comments on: Disabling the “Your computer is low on memory” and “Close programs to prevent information loss” dialogs

By: georgeflug

georgeflug — Wed, 05 May 2010 00:50:08 +0000

Thanks for the post. A little extra help for anyone who needs it:

I was getting an access denied error when trying to give myself Full Control rights to the keys. Here’s how I fixed it:

Right-click the Key and click Properties.
Click Advanced
Go to the Owner tab.
Click on “Administrators” or whatever your username is.
Click OK. This changes the owner from “TrustedInstaller” to you.
Now click “Administrators” or your username and place a check next to “Full Control”.
Click OK.
Now you can delete the key.

This must be done individually for all three keys.

By: Dj

Dj — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:36:23 +0000

thanks!!
i tried this one, now it is time to see what will happen next!

thanks bro

By: Microsux

Microsux — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:19:21 +0000

didnt get it on Fallout 3 but a LOT of times during Starcraft II which can be SO ANNOYING esp. when you’re in the middle of tyring to win a 1v1

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By: Quinn

Quinn — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:25:13 +0000

Thanks for this, it kept popping up when I was playing Fallout 3. I had to also set permissions for full access before I could delete those folders.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:04:56 +0000

I have 8GB ram and it starts going off around 5.2GB used space. What a load of CROCK, Microsoft.

By: ernst

ernst — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:01:47 +0000

thanks very much, this was the last remaining annoying message on windows 7 for me.

although i would prefer to tune the values, e. g. low memory warnings if there are only <100M left. but the default value of 25% is crazy.

By: Kylir

Kylir — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:42:55 +0000

It wouldn’t hurt to try it as an administrator. When I did it, my user had full admin rights and I did those steps exactly as I described.

Try adding the “everyone” user group to the permissions for the registry keys. Give it full control before trying to remove the keys again.

Do you get the same permission denied message when trying to delete any one of the three keys? What happens if you try to make a key and then immediately remove it?

By: Awong

Awong — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:03:09 +0000

yea im pretty sure, im taking ownership with my user. should i be on admin?

By: Kylir

Kylir — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:00:40 +0000

Are you taking ownership of the three folders as described in step 4?

By: Awong

Awong — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:49:39 +0000

so i get a message while im trying to delete the 3 files about a problem while deleting

it says:
“Cannot delete {folder name}: error while deleting key.”

can anyone help

By: Kylir

Kylir — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:16:40 +0000

Are you logged in with administrative privileges? I would suspect there are security hiccups preventing you from modifying those keys.

By: B

Sun, 10 May 2009 22:18:55 +0000

I keep getting access denied on all the operations on the three registry entries.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:44:28 +0000

Thanks, this was really helpful!