Disable Balloon Tip Messages In Vista
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Pop-up messages and balloon tip can become annoying in Vista. Windows relies on these messages to inform users of what is going on with their computer. Alot of the messages never seem to be relevant and more importantly, many of the messages are so self-explanatory that they are completely unnecessary. Take for example the balloon tip that appears indicating that I have unused icons on my desktop.
Now this is just my personal opinion and I’m sure some many people don’t mind all the balloon tip messages. In any case, you can prevent these messages from appearing by making a change to the Registry as described below.
- Open the registry editor and navigate to the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explo-rer.
- Right click on Advanced, point to New and click DWORD value.
- Type in EnableBalloonTips.
- Double click the new DWORD value and change the value to 0.
Tags: vista, vista tips, windows vista
2 Comments
Michael George
February 20th, 2008
at 4:21am
Re: Stop Vista Balloon Tips. Have successfully used the registry tweak described with two 32 bit Vista machines. However it does not work with 64 bit Vista. Other suggestions? Thanks, Michael
Web Design Melbourne
March 1st, 2008
at 8:06pm
Hi,
thanks for the tip, it worked! however, we have a web based chat program that notifies when someone visits our site. In XP it used to make a sound with the baloon pop-up but in Vista it does not. The software developer advises to buy the recent version. If you can help us, we do nto need to buy upgrade!