Thursday, July 9, 2009

How to Disable Notification Area Balloon Tips in Windows XP

Purpose:
The purpose of this article is to teach you the way to disable notification area balloon tips in windows XP.
Notification Area Balloon Tips:
Balloon tips are displayed to notify the user of occurrences such as low disk space, the installation of new programs, and the fact that notification area icons have been hidden.
To disable notification area balloon tips
Follow these steps
This article contains information about modifying the registry. Before you modify the registry, make sure to back it up and make sure that you understand how to restore the registry if a problem occurs.
1. Click Start, click Run, in the open box type regedit and then click OK.
2. The Registry Editor console will open. Expand the following key:
 HKEY_CURRENT_USER  Software  Microsoft  Windows
 CurrentVersion  Explorer  Advanced

3. In the details pane right click, point to New and then click DWORD value and name it EnableBalloonTips

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

5. Exit the registry editor.

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