Saturday, December 8, 2012

How to Disable All Notification Balloons in Windows 7 or Vista

If you find the popup notification balloons in the Windows system tray to be too annoying, you might be interested to know that you can completely disable them.
 I have not tried it on Windows 8 yet but I am sure it should work on any version of Windows.


Manual Registry Hack
Open up regedit.exe through the start menu search or run box, and then browse down to the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced 

Right-click on the right-hand pane, and create a new 32-bit DWORD with the following values:
  • Name: EnableBalloonTips
  • Value: 0
You’ll have to logoff and back on in order to see the change… or to be more correct, you won’t see any popup balloons anymore.

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