disable balloons in XP

[Guest]

I tend to track the pointer over the various things I look at on screen, and
invariably my view is blocked by a yellow box with what I generally consider
to be irrelevant information. This happens in Adobe acrobat, explorer and
almost every other windows program I use regularly.

I have added a registry key to stop help balloons from popping up in office
applications, but as it turns out, those usually helped. So now I get the
ones I don't want, and don't get the ones I do want.

Is there some way to turn off the balloons in explorer and adobe programs?
I'd rather not see them anywhere, if at all possible.

 

[Jon]

I may be mistaken, but I think "mdillingham"

I tend to track the pointer over the various things I look at on screen,
and
invariably my view is blocked by a yellow box with what I generally
consider
to be irrelevant information. This happens in Adobe acrobat, explorer and
almost every other windows program I use regularly.

I have added a registry key to stop help balloons from popping up in
office
applications, but as it turns out, those usually helped. So now I get the
ones I don't want, and don't get the ones I do want.

Is there some way to turn off the balloons in explorer and adobe programs?
I'd rather not see them anywhere, if at all possible.

This is the usual tweak

EnableBalloonTips (DWORD with a value of 1)

at


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

 

[Jon]

This is the usual tweak

EnableBalloonTips (DWORD with a value of 1)

at


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

Sorry that should have been DWORD with a value of 0 to disable them

 

[Guest]

Yup. That's what I did. I still get the hovering yellow boxes when I'm not
in an MSOffice program.

 

[Jon]

Reliable sources are claiming that "mdillingham"

Yup. That's what I did. I still get the hovering yellow boxes when I'm
not
in an MSOffice program.

That tweak should be sufficient to turn off the yellow boxes in explorer
(never known it to fail) but...

(1) It is case sensitive, so the key should be EnableBalloonTips rather than
say enableballoontips

(2) It will require at least a log on and off to be activated.

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi,

How to remove Balloon Tips:
The balloon tips can be disabled using Tweakui. Install Tweakui and go to
Task - Start menu, then uncheck "Enable balloon tips".
Or here's a script to Disable Balloon Tips
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_balloontips.htm

Microsoft PowerToys - Tweakui for WinXP: Ver. 2.10 requires WinXP SP1 and later
http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWSXP/home/downloads/powertoys.asp