Policy

Stop indexing in the event of limited hard drive space

Enabling this policy prevents indexing from continuing after less than the specified amount of hard drive space is left on the same drive as the index location. Select between 0 and 2147483647 MB. Enable this policy if computers in your environment have extremely limited hard drive space. When this policy is disabled or not configured, Windows Desktop Search automatically manages your index size.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Windows
Category Windows Components / Search
Policy ID 9e2a7cc1d4bf
Internal name StopIndexingOnLimitedHardDriveSpace

Registry

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HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\PreventIndexingLowDiskSpaceMB

Policy notes

Enabling this policy prevents indexing from continuing after less than the specified amount of hard drive space is left on the same drive as the index location. Select between 0 and 2147483647 MB. Enable this policy if computers in your environment have extremely limited hard drive space. When this policy is disabled or not configured, Windows Desktop Search automatically manages your index size.

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