Disable balloon tips in Windows.
This setting allows you to disable balloon tips that pops-up in the notification area.
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Description:
Balloon tips are pop-up notification of some events. Typically they appear in the notification area (earlier called as system tray) when new hardware or software is installed or free disk space dries-down or when you receive run-time notifications. These can come up automatically and can be closed down by clicking on 'x' in top right corner. However, if you are annoyed of regular pop-up displays you can disable them through this simple registry change. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. You can create a dword value enableballoontips in the right panel, if this value does not exist. Now, right-click and modify its value to 0 which can disable balloon tips. However, if you want enable the display back, change the value data to 2 or delete the added value. The changes take effect after a restart or logoff. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.
Balloon tips are pop-up notification of some events. Typically they appear in the notification area (earlier called as system tray) when new hardware or software is installed or free disk space dries-down or when you receive run-time notifications. These can come up automatically and can be closed down by clicking on 'x' in top right corner. However, if you are annoyed of regular pop-up displays you can disable them through this simple registry change. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. You can create a dword value enableballoontips in the right panel, if this value does not exist. Now, right-click and modify its value to 0 which can disable balloon tips. However, if you want enable the display back, change the value data to 2 or delete the added value. The changes take effect after a restart or logoff. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.
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First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".
Go to <b> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion Explorer\Advanced\]</b>, right-click in the open area to create a DWORD Value with the name "EnableBalloonTips" in "Advanced" key.
Next, right-click on "EnableBalloonTips" and click on 'Modify'.
Finally, enter the value "0" in the text box and click on 'OK'.
Registry Entries
- back to top- Path: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\]
- Location: Current User
- Value Name: EnableBalloonTips
- Data Type: DWORD (DWORD Value)
- Enabled Value: 0
- Disabled Value: 2
- Action Type: Add an Entry
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