March 26, 2008

Windows Wednesday: How to Disable Balloon Popups

 

Do you like the balloon popup notices that come up from the Windows toolbar? I absolutely hate them. I don’t need to know that I’ve connected because I can look at the icon and it will tell me. The balloons annoy me because they won’t close themselves. Have you ever wanted to just turn them off?? Here’s a quick how to:

First click the start button and click run. Type in Regedit

You should now see a screen like this:

Now we’re going to navigate to the correct subfolder so be patient. You’re going to want to click the + icon next to the following folders (moving from left to right):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows -> CurrentVersion -> Explorer -> Advanced

You should now be in the Advanced folder and you’ll want to right click and select DWORD Value (it should look a little like this):

You’ll want to call your new file EnableBalloonTips and then right click -> click modify and then make sure the Value date is set to 0.

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Written by Michael

 

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