HOW TO: Disable Notification Area Balloon Tips in Windows XP (307729)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional
This article was previously published under Q307729 Important 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. For information about how to back up, restore, and edit the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 256986 Description of the Microsoft Windows Registry SUMMARY
This article explains how to disable Notification Area balloon tips.
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To Disable The Notification Area Balloon TipsWarning If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own risk. - Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then press ENTER.
- Navigate to the following subkey:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced - Right-click the right pane, create a new DWORD value, and then name it EnableBalloonTips.
- Double-click this new entry, and then give it a hexadecimal value of 0.
- Quit Registry Editor. Log off Windows, and then log back on.
These steps disable all Notification Area balloon tips for this user. There is no way to disable balloon tips for specific programs only.
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REFERENCES
For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
282962
Balloon Tips Are Not Read by Narrator Accessibility Tool
| Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 1/16/2004 |
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| Keywords: | kbHOWTOmaster KB307729 kbAudITPro |
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