LKBEN10827: How to disable the Windows XP Balloon Tips

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LKB | Created: 02/04/2020 | Version: 1 | Language: EN | Rating: 0 | Outdated: False | Marked for deletion: False

Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Latest update: 05/10/2020 | Comment:

Symptom

You need to disable the balloon tips.

Cause

You want to disable the Balloon Tips of your Windows XP.

Solution

To disable the balloon Tips you have to change one registry key.

First start regedit: Start -> run -> regedit

Then search for the follwing entry: "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced"

Look for the key "EnableBalloonTips" and change the value from 1 to 0.

Now the Balloon Tips aren't shown any more

About the Author

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux in different European countries and different European languages. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform where he is one of the most important contributors and the main developer.

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