LKBEN10827: How to disable the Windows XP Balloon Tips
LKB | Created: 02/04/2020 | Version: 1 | Language: EN | Rating: 0 | Outdated: False | Marked for deletion: False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.