Balloon tips!!

[Rick]

How does one remove the pop-up balloon tool tips? Can they be de-activated?
Thanks

 

[Ken Simmons [MSFT]]

Hi Rick,

KBLink:256986.KB.EN-US: Description of the Microsoft Windows Registry


To Disable The Notification Area Balloon Tips
---------------------------------------------

1. Click Start, click Run, type "regedit" (without the quotation
marks), and then press ENTER.

2. Navigate to the following subkey:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Adv
anced

3. Right-click the right pane, create a new DWORD value, and then name
it "EnableBalloonTips" (without the quotation marks).

4. Double-click this new entry, and then give it a hexadecimal value of
0.

5. Quit Registry Editor. Log off Windows, and then log back on.

Regards,

Ken Simmons

Microsoft Technical Support for Platforms and Business Applications

 

[Rick]

Ken;
Thanks for the prompt reply.

 

[John Reagan]

You can also disable them via the TweakUI power tool. Under Taskbar, there
is a check box to disable balloon tips.

John

 

[Guest]

Go here for your answer. Find it in one of the categories
http://www.computerhope.com/winxpqa.htm