Can I Disable the "Context Pop-Up Balloons?"

[J. Danniel]

Hello.

I'm using Windows XP Professional.

I'm not sure what they are called, so for now, until I learn the
proper term for them, I'll call them "context pop-up balloons."

I'll give you an example of one, so you know what I'm referring to.
When you mouse-over the X toaster, a little pop-up balloon with the
word CLOSE appears.

I'd like to know if it is possible to disable these balloons, so that
they don't appear. If this is possible, I'd also like to know if
disabling the balloons works for ALL of my programs, and not just
Windows XP.

I have a program that I am recording screen movements of. The context
pop-up balloons are getting in the way, and might cause a distraction.
I'd like to disable those balloons, so they do not appear in the AVI
movie I'm creating.

Can I do this? If so, is it easy or difficult? Is there a freeware
utility that lets me switch such balloons off and on, and can it be
done globally, for all programs?

Is it possible to disable ALL of the balloons that might appear? I'm
not referring just to the toaster balloons. That was just an example.

Thank you very much for any assistance you can provide.

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[Jeff]

Hi,

I beleive MVP Kelly has a solution to that on her website,

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/

Just search through the utilities.

Jeff

 

[J. Danniel]

There is a Disable Balloon Tips or Disable All registry key on her web
site. Actually, these are two separate keys.

I couldn't find an option for enabling the balloons again. Is there
one? Do I just delete the registry keys?

Hi,

I beleive MVP Kelly has a solution to that on her website,

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/

Just search through the utilities.

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[J. Danniel]

Nope....didn't work.... did I download the right thing?
Is there anything else I can try?

Hi,

I beleive MVP Kelly has a solution to that on her website,

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/

Just search through the utilities.

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[J. Danniel]

Hi.

All I did was download two .reg files and clicked them to import them
into the registry. Nowhere on that site does it say any registry key
editing has to be done. There is an option with Disable Balloon Tips
for "Disable All." I naturally assumed ALL meant ALL. I guess I was
wrong.

Let me tell you, specifically, what I want to do, so perhaps we can
narrow the procedure down further.

I'm using a program called Magix Audio Cleaning Lab 2005. It is an
audio file noise reduction program that eliminates clicks, crackle,
noise, and tape hiss from digital audio files.

When you mouse over the buttons for DECLICKER, DECRACKLER, DENOISER,
DEHISSING, a little pop-up window appears. I am assuming it is called
a Balloon Tip. When I author .CHM files, they're called popup
windows. I guess the concept is similar, if not identical.

I am using a screen movement recording program to record an AVI movie
of the Magix screen. At times, when I move the mouse around the
screen, these balloon tips/popup windows/whatever you want to call
them appear. I would prefer these tip windows do not show up in the
final AVI movie. It's not the end of the world if they DO, but they
are a distraction.

I'd like to disable these windows from appearing. I don't know
anything about hexidecimal masks or anything like that. I am
experienced enough with the registry to feel comfortable editing
registry keys, but now I have to be guided, and told what to edit,
specifically for the balloon tip windows in Magix.

I want to finish this project sometime this weekend, so if I am unable
to disable those tip windows by Sunday night, I'm going to have to
leave them in the movie.

Jd

There are lots of settings. How do you know it didn't work. Close is 80. Sample is showing something else.

The user preference mask is a hexadecimal representation of bit values. To set use Windows Calculator and the values from the table below.

To use Windows Calculator take the value from UserPreferences and AND it with the value from the table below.

a.. Put the value from the table below into Calculator in Hex mode
b.. Press AND
c.. Take the value from from user preferences (in this sample 000000fd as it's byte order reversed).
d.. If it is set it will return the same value as the table below, if it's not set it will return 0
HKCU\Control Panel\desktop
UserPreferencemask

Action Value in Hex
Turn on x-mouse 1
If on bring window to top 40

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"UserPreferencemask"=hex:fd,00,00,00

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[David Candy]

The close buttons are handled by windows (and is called Hot Tracking). Application tooltips are handled by that application. Kelly's tooltip file controls Explorer's (Desktop, Start menu, Taskbar) tooltips, infotips, and balloons.

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Hi.

All I did was download two .reg files and clicked them to import them
into the registry. Nowhere on that site does it say any registry key
editing has to be done. There is an option with Disable Balloon Tips
for "Disable All." I naturally assumed ALL meant ALL. I guess I was
wrong.

Let me tell you, specifically, what I want to do, so perhaps we can
narrow the procedure down further.

I'm using a program called Magix Audio Cleaning Lab 2005. It is an
audio file noise reduction program that eliminates clicks, crackle,
noise, and tape hiss from digital audio files.

When you mouse over the buttons for DECLICKER, DECRACKLER, DENOISER,
DEHISSING, a little pop-up window appears. I am assuming it is called
a Balloon Tip. When I author .CHM files, they're called popup
windows. I guess the concept is similar, if not identical.

I am using a screen movement recording program to record an AVI movie
of the Magix screen. At times, when I move the mouse around the
screen, these balloon tips/popup windows/whatever you want to call
them appear. I would prefer these tip windows do not show up in the
final AVI movie. It's not the end of the world if they DO, but they
are a distraction.

I'd like to disable these windows from appearing. I don't know
anything about hexidecimal masks or anything like that. I am
experienced enough with the registry to feel comfortable editing
registry keys, but now I have to be guided, and told what to edit,
specifically for the balloon tip windows in Magix.

I want to finish this project sometime this weekend, so if I am unable
to disable those tip windows by Sunday night, I'm going to have to
leave them in the movie.

Jd

There are lots of settings. How do you know it didn't work. Close is 80. Sample is showing something else.

The user preference mask is a hexadecimal representation of bit values. To set use Windows Calculator and the values from the table below.

To use Windows Calculator take the value from UserPreferences and AND it with the value from the table below.

a.. Put the value from the table below into Calculator in Hex mode
b.. Press AND
c.. Take the value from from user preferences (in this sample 000000fd as it's byte order reversed).
d.. If it is set it will return the same value as the table below, if it's not set it will return 0
HKCU\Control Panel\desktop
UserPreferencemask

Action Value in Hex
Turn on x-mouse 1
If on bring window to top 40

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"UserPreferencemask"=hex:fd,00,00,00

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Thank you! J. Danniel