HOW TO Disable Notification Area Balloon Tips in Windows XP
Posted on February 11th, 2008 by thehabgroup
Note: the steps below only affect the current user. These steps disable all Notification Area balloon tips for this user. There is no way to disable balloon tips for specific programs only.
1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then press ENTER.
2. Navigate to the following subkey: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
3. Create a new DWORD value, and then call it EnableBalloonTips.
4. Double-click this new entry, and then give it a hexadecimal value of 0.
5. Log off Windows, and then log back on.
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