Sunday, February 13, 2005

Remove those annoying balloon tips / tooltips in Win XP

Windows XP has annoyed me for the VERY last time with it's not so helpful "balloon tips" tooltip popups. If any of you use Windows XP, you know what I mean. Actually, it's not so bad if you have a desktop with XP, but if you have a laptop - well, .

So after 20 seconds of searching online, I found the registry key needed to wipe out these balloon tips. You can edit registry using the following steps...If you need more detailed steps than these, leave a comment and I'll just email you the file you need.

1. Edit the following registry key to add the EnableBalloonTips dword

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\

CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] "EnableBalloonTips"=dword:0

2. Logout and login.

WOO-HOO!

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