Policy

Stop indexing in the event of limited hard drive space

Windows 11 25H2

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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

ClassComputer
CategoryWindows Components > Search
Supported onMicrosoft Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 with Windows Search version 3.01, or any version of Microsoft Windows with Windows Search 4.0 or later

Supported OS tags: WindowsServer2003, WindowsXP

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.

Internal name
StopIndexingOnLimitedHardDriveSpace
Policy ID
9e2a7cc1d4bf
Elements
1

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

No explicit registry values are set for enabled or disabled states.

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

ElementTypeRegistry mappingConstraints & behavior
MB Limit
ID StopIndexingOnLimitedHardDriveSpace_MBLimit
decimal
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\PreventIndexingLowDiskSpaceMB
Type REG_DWORD
Range: ? to 2147483647

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