Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Hide Notification Balloons

It may be very annoying when Windows popping up a balloon notification telling you things you already know every time you turn on your machine, here is a tip on permanently disabling them.

You should note that this will disable all balloon notifications, so proceed with caution.

Steps:

1. Click on Start \ Run and type in regedit
2. Now we will navigate to this path in your registry.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

3. On the right pane right click on an open area and choose New \ DWORD Value

4. You will see New Value #1. Change this to EnableBalloonTips.

5. Next double click the new registry entry you created. In the Value Data field set it to 0 (zero). Make sure Hexadecimal is selected under Base. Click OK.

6. Finally restart your system and enjoy the clean boot up with no balloons popping up at you.


Note: To undo the changes simply change the value to 0 from 1.

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