Windows XP
How To Disable baloon tips on Windows
Last Updated on Sunday, 08 April 2012 07:51 Published on Wednesday, 28 October 2009 18:19
The following tip will help you to disable balloon tips in the notification area. To achieve this follow these steps:
Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then press ENTER.
Locate the following subkey:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Right-click the right side pane, create a new DWORD value, and then name it EnableBalloonTips.
Double-click EnableBalloonTips, and then give it a value of 0.
Close Registry Editor.
Log off Windows, and then log back on.
You can also use an app from Microsoft which will do it automatically for you: