On Win XP sp2 with a wireless adapter card I often get a pop up
balloon with the message "Wireless Network Connection is now
connected". It doesn't disappear. I have to click it off.

Googling the above message I found that this is a common
annoyance. Of the many suggested fixes I found, none of
them work. So my question is ... is there a method of stopping
this annoyance once and for all that actually works?

Art

See this article about registry hacks for killing balloon pop ups:
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kba...eBalloons.html

--
Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP 1997 - 2008


"Art" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Win XP sp2 with a wireless adapter card I often get a pop up
> balloon with the message "Wireless Network Connection is now
> connected". It doesn't disappear. I have to click it off.
>
> Googling the above message I found that this is a common
> annoyance. Of the many suggested fixes I found, none of
> them work. So my question is ... is there a method of stopping
> this annoyance once and for all that actually works?
>
> Art

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:33:44 -0500, "Ron Badour" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>See this article about registry hacks for killing balloon pop ups:
>http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kba...eBalloons.html

That's pne of the many I tried that don't work I'm looking for
a fix that actually works, as I said.

Art

Just asking for "a fix that actually works" is kind of silly unless you have
said what you have already tried. Otherwise you have to expect that many of
the suggestions to be those things that did not work for you.

"Art" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:33:44 -0500, "Ron Badour" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>>See this article about registry hacks for killing balloon pop ups:
>>http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kba...eBalloons.html
>
> That's pne of the many I tried that don't work I'm looking for
> a fix that actually works, as I said.
>
> Art
>

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:59:47 -0600, "Colin Barnhorst"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Just asking for "a fix that actually works" is kind of silly unless you have
>said what you have already tried. Otherwise you have to expect that many of
>the suggestions to be those things that did not work for you.

Not silly at all ... I want to find out if anyone who actually has had
this problem found a fix. I'm not going to bother listing all the
alleged fixes that don't work since that would take quite a bit of
time and effort.

Art

>
>"Art" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:33:44 -0500, "Ron Badour" <(E-Mail Removed)>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>See this article about registry hacks for killing balloon pop ups:
>>>http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kba...eBalloons.html
>>
>> That's pne of the many I tried that don't work I'm looking for
>> a fix that actually works, as I said.
>>
>> Art
>>

Art wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:59:47 -0600, "Colin Barnhorst"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> Just asking for "a fix that actually works" is kind of silly unless you have
>> said what you have already tried. Otherwise you have to expect that many of
>> the suggestions to be those things that did not work for you.
>
> Not silly at all ... I want to find out if anyone who actually has had
> this problem found a fix. I'm not going to bother listing all the
> alleged fixes that don't work since that would take quite a bit of
> time and effort.
>
> Art

I know what will fix it for good: reformat the hard drive and put a real
operating system on it. I like Ubuntu; check it out at:

http://www.ubuntu.com/

It's free and comes with access to over 23,000 free programs.

Alias
>
>> "Art" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:33:44 -0500, "Ron Badour" <(E-Mail Removed)>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> See this article about registry hacks for killing balloon pop ups:
>>>> http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kba...eBalloons.html
>>> That's pne of the many I tried that don't work I'm looking for
>>> a fix that actually works, as I said.
>>>
>>> Art
>>>

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:22:00 GMT, Art <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:59:47 -0600, "Colin Barnhorst"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >Just asking for "a fix that actually works" is kind of silly unless you have
> >said what you have already tried. Otherwise you have to expect that many of
> >the suggestions to be those things that did not work for you.
>
> Not silly at all ... I want to find out if anyone who actually has had
> this problem found a fix. I'm not going to bother listing all the
> alleged fixes that don't work since that would take quite a bit of
> time and effort.


Then don't be surprised if nobody here wants to suggest any fixes,
since you may have already tried them and they didn't work. That would
take quite a bit of time and effort.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:13:11 +0200, Alias <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>I know what will fix it for good: reformat the hard drive and put a real
>operating system on it. I like Ubuntu; check it out at:
>
>http://www.ubuntu.com/
>
>It's free and comes with access to over 23,000 free programs.

Last version I tried didn't have provisions for my Linksys wireless
adapter.

Art

Art wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:13:11 +0200, Alias <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>> I know what will fix it for good: reformat the hard drive and put a real
>> operating system on it. I like Ubuntu; check it out at:
>>
>> http://www.ubuntu.com/
>>
>> It's free and comes with access to over 23,000 free programs.
>
> Last version I tried didn't have provisions for my Linksys wireless
> adapter.
>
> Art

What version was that? The newer versions support more wireless than before.

Alias

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:15:58 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:22:00 GMT, Art <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:59:47 -0600, "Colin Barnhorst"
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>> >Just asking for "a fix that actually works" is kind of silly unless you have
>> >said what you have already tried. Otherwise you have to expect that many of
>> >the suggestions to be those things that did not work for you.
>>
>> Not silly at all ... I want to find out if anyone who actually has had
>> this problem found a fix. I'm not going to bother listing all the
>> alleged fixes that don't work since that would take quite a bit of
>> time and effort.
>
>
>Then don't be surprised if nobody here wants to suggest any fixes,
>since you may have already tried them and they didn't work. That would
>take quite a bit of time and effort.

Look, it's very simple. If you don't know a fix that actually works
then don't bother to respond. Why is that so difficult to grasp?

Art