balloons

[Dan]

Today is my first day with XP home....
is there a way to disable all those ridiculous ballon messages?

[Dark Nova]

ballon messages???

[blue60007]

From PCStats.com's 101 Tips

At some points, it seems like Windows XP is feeling lonely or something… every 5 minutes, some desktop-obscuring balloon tip will pop out of nowhere to inform you that you are not using the icons on your desktop, or that you have installed a new program, or that it's sunny outside… Seems like the operating system just needs someone to talk to. If, like me, you get fed up with this, here's a quick registry addition that will stop the madness: Open REGEDIT. Goto: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced Add the DWORD value 'EnableBalloonTips' and give it a value of '0' This will stop all balloon tips from popping up

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.c...d=1494&page=32

Do you know how to work regedit?

[seanarmenta]

no need to get into the registry...

download TweakUI from Microsoft's Power Tools.

Tweak UI Download

once you launch it, click on Taskbar and Start Menu, then uncheck "Enable Ballon Tips"

done. you can also use Tweak UI to get rid of a number of XP annoying things as well as clean up the XP interface.


sean

[patrickt]

I built a new computer and installed the OS three days ago. I didn't bother disabling the balloons and I get none now. The irritating ones seem to stop after the first couple of days.

[Dan]

thanks all...
XP does seem like a Disney Production.....too many whistles and bells and bells for my personal taste. (and balloons, not ballons!)
tweakui seemed the easiest resolve.........

[Marke522]

I don't think you'll want to completly disable them. The annoying ones will disappear after a short period of time, like patrick said. There might be a time when your network connection isn't working, or a device has become unplugged, or you're trying to connect a new device and need know if windows has detected it.

There are many annoying ballons as well as informative ones, I'd wait a week or so before you turn them off completly and see if they go away. I saw one the other day for the first time in months. It was because my ISP reset my address and I had to power cycle my router.