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Disable The MSN Passport Prompt In XP

Posted by on Aug 31, 2006 | 2 Comments

Once you install Windows Vista, you will immediately notice the prompt that appears every so often reminding you to register with MSN. If you have no intentions of doing so, then it is time to disable the prompt so it no longer appears. You can accomplish this by making a small change to the Registry.

To disable the MSN Passport prompt:

  1. Click Start and click Run.

  2. Type regedit and click OK.
  3. Navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MessengerService.
  4. From the Edit menu, click the Add Value option.
  5. Add a new value with the following information:
    • Value Name – PassportBalloon

    • Value Type – REG_BINARY
    • Data – 0a

Once you have the value created, close the registry editor. The MSN Passport prompt will no longer plague you.

  • Lucy

    Changing the registry does NOT disable Microsoft Passport. I tried it a million times, closed the registry and rebooted. This balloon still pops up.

  • http://n/a Leigh Carter

    The ‘add new value’ you mention doesn’t exist. It is not under any options in edit. I have changed everything under Internet Options which should have worked, but still doesn’t. The edit options show: modify, modify binary data, new, permissions, copy key name, find and find next. Under new: the options are string value, binary value, D-word, Q-word, multi string value and expandable sting value.