gHacks technology news » disable-balloon-tips http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:22:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Disable Balloon Tips in Windows Vista http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/28/disable-balloon-tips-in-windows-vista/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/28/disable-balloon-tips-in-windows-vista/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:46:12 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/28/disable-balloon-tips-in-windows-vista/ This article explains how to disable Balloon Tips in Windows Vista. I thought it would be a nice follow up article on the one that described how to make the balloon tips transparent. I personally think that Balloon Tips have no right to be there at all, they look awful and most do not contain information that are important in any way. I disabled them the first day I started using Windows XP and I did the same on my Windows Vista notebook. Balloon Tips are a waste of time in my opinion. Let me explain how you can disable balloon tips in Windows Vista.

  • Press Windows+R, enter gpedit.msc and hit enter. This opens the Group Policy Editor. Please note that the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) is not available in Windows Vista Home and Vista Home Premium. I’m going to outline how to disable balloon tips on those editions at the end
  • Go to User Configuration, Administrative Templates, Start Menu and Taskbar.
  • Select Remove Balloon Tips, right-click it and choose properties from the context menu
  • Select Enable from the options and click ok
  • Close the Group Policy Editor
  • Reboot Windows Vista

As I said earlier gpedit.msc is not available in Windows Vista Home and Home Premium which means that we have to rely on the registry to disable those annoying balloon tips in Windows Vista.

  • Press Windows+R, type regedit and hit enter. This starts the registry editor
  • Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER / SOFTWARE / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion / Explorer / Advanced
  • Create a new Dword and name it EnableBalloonTips
  • The value should be automatically set to 0, if it is not change it to 0
  • Reboot Windows Vista
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A great feature of xpy is that it is able to check the settings of similar tools like xp-antispy and display them in xpy. You can control the settings of both tools without the fear to disable a feature you changed already. The open source software xpy allows you to make changes to seven different categories like services, usability and delete files.

Some of the most useful changes are the following:

General: Disable Error Reporting, Disable Remote Assistance, Enable Fast Shutdown

Services: Disable Automatic Windows Updates, Disable Messenger Service, Disable Firewall / Connection Sharing

Windows Messenger: Remove Messenger from Outlook, Uninstall Windows Messenger

Usability: Disable Balloon Tips, Disable Thumbnail Caching,

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