Computer FAQs & Tips

Sometime you might find it very annoying with windows XP balloon notification, it keep popup every now and then, specially it keep on telling those information that you’ve already knew.
You don’t leave it with it. Now you want disable it?
Instruction below will tell you how to do it.

WARNING: If you don’t know or don’t have knowledge on windows registry, you’d better not to mess it. It might give you a serious problem if things goes wrong. If you know what you are doing, please proceed. No responsibility will be taken by this blog and its owner.

1. Click Start
2. Click Run
3. Type regedit
4. Browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoft
   WindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced
5. Right click on Advanced
6. Click New > DWORD Value
7. Change New Value #1 to EnableBalloonTips
8. Check if the Value data is set to 0, if not double click on EnableBalloonTips and enter 0 in Value data

Next time you restart computer, you won’t get those annoying bubble anymore.