Stop Balloon help on Task Bar

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David Lewis

Hello All

Is there anyway of stopping the 'balloon help" pop up areas as you pass your
cursor over task bar buttons?It drives me nuts and obscures me seeing the
other task bar buttons
TIA
 
Hi, David.

I only know the Registry key for notification area balloon tips. It may work
for the Task bar but maybe not.

Before messing in the Registry, make sure you have a System Restore check
point.

Click Start/Run, type regedit, and hit OK. Go to the following registry
subkey:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advance
d

Right-click an open space in the right pane and create a new DWORD value.
Name it EnableBalloonTips.

Double-click this new entry. In the dialogue box give it a hexadecimal value
of 0.
Exit. Reboot.

Hope this helps,

Ed
 
Hi Edward,
Was hoping to keep balloons over notification area as they often serve a
useful purpose wheras over the task bar they usually repeat the info already
shown on the button.
Seems I've stumped the panel or it just can't be done?I'll post again in a
day or so.thanks anyway

David
 
Hi David,

At this time, the answer is NO. When the workaround is found, it will be
posted. Good luck in the meantime!

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