Are you sick of those Windows balloons telling you that you have unused icons on your desktop or that your LAN is connected? I don't doubt that about 1 in 100 people finds the notifications useful, but for the other 99 of us, here's a way to pop the balloons once and for all.

Follow these steps (note: this has been tested only on Windows XP):

• Go to Start > Run; type regedit and press Enter.
• In the Registry Editor, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Advanced
• Create a new DWORD value by going to Edit > New > DWORD Value. Name it EnableBalloonTips and give it value 0.
• Exit the Registry Editor.
• Log off Windows and login again to see your changes take effect.

To re-activate balloon notifications, change the value of EnableBalloonTips to 1.

[Via Techie Corner]