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Popping Those Notification Balloons in Vista

By Adam Myers ⋅ July 10, 2008 ⋅ Tags: Annoyances, Vista

You know those balloon tips popups that appear down in your Vista tray? The idea behind them is to provide information that is important in an eye-catching way. The only problem is, the information they deliver is rarely of the utmost importance; but at least they are eye catching gouging. If you find them as annoying and distracting as I, you may be interested in knowing how you may go about disabling the popup. We dive into the Windows Registry yet again, the gatekeeper to many Vista tweaks.

1. Click Start and in the Start Search box type regedit.exe
2. Traverse the Registry Editor navigation tree on the left hand side down to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced



3. Create a new 32-bit DWORD key called EnabledBalloonTips with a value of 0 by right-clicking in the right most panel.



4. Log out and back into Vista to see the outcome of your work.