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Get Rid of Annoying Balloon Notifcations in XP

You can turn off all system tray balloon popups by editing the registry.

Always backup your registry before making any changes.

Open the registry editor: click Start, Run, regedit, OK

In the left pane, navigate to:

HKEY CURRENT USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

Right click an empty space in the right pane and select New, then select DWORD value

Right click the new entry and select Rename. Give it the name EnableBalloonTips

Double click the entry and in the Value Data field, give it a hexadecimal value of 0

Close the registry editor

You'll need to log off and log back on before the change takes effect, and the balloons will be disabled only for the current user.

If you log onto the computer with a different user account, the balloons will still appear.







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