Can't Disable Balloon Tips despite registry modification

[Phil Rabichow]

Hi All:
I have Win XP SP2 on a single user machine with full administrator
privileges. I tried to disable balloon tips by:
1. Going to

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

& modifying EnableBalloonTips to have a value of 1. I rebooted.
2. Used Doug Knox's vbs file to do the same.
3. Used TweakUI to do the same.

Nevertheless, I can't get rid of the balloon tips. I noticed that

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Tips

has an entry to Show with a value of 1.

What is the difference between those two entries?
Why wouldn't the first hack work?

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Welcome to the club.

I could not disable balloon tips when I had XP Home and I can't disable them
with XP Pro.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Explorer\Advanced
Has these Value Names:
EnableBalloonTips
FolderContentsInfoTip
StartButtonBalloonTip
ShowInfoTip

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Tips
Has this Value Name:
Show

These are the keys, entries and value data that need to be set to disable
all balloon tips.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Explorer\Advanced]
"EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Explorer\Advanced]
"FolderContentsInfoTip"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\tips]
"Show"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Explorer\Advanced]
"StartButtonBalloonTip"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Explorer\Advanced]
"ShowInfoTip"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Policies\Explorer]
"NoSMBalloonTip"=dword:00000000

Automated edit here...
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/disableall.reg

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Phil Rabichow]

Hi Wesley:
Perfect!! Out of curiosity, I made the changes manually. I first changed
all the registry values EXCEPT for

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

"NoSMBalloonTip"=dword:00000000

Even though I did a logoff & logon, there was no change. Then I ran the reg
file to add the above key & value.
Then logging off & on stopped all balloons. Now only the systray icons, QL
icons, & filenames that are too long to be seen are shown when the mouse is
hovered above. Just what I wanted.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Phil,

You seem to have left me in the club all by myself. Glad you got it worked
out. Keep having fun.

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