Filed under: Windows, Microsoft
Disable those annoying Windows balloons
by Amber Rhea Sep 13th 2006
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.
[Via Techie Corner]
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