Comments on: Disable Notification Balloons in XP

By: Tom Williams

Tom Williams — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:12:54 +0000

worked perfectly, no more annoying balloons. thanks guys

By: rony

rony — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:34:28 +0000

please, can you help me how to change the expiration date of access 2003 database. We have an access database but already expired and we cannot use it anymore is there any other option to disable expiration or to change the database expiration. My friend who created this access database went home for final exit and i have no contact him.

By: redgrl

redgrl — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:13:16 +0000

I used two VBS scripts recommended from PC World Tips & Tweaks (that often mentions this site and is how I found it!).

For disabling Balloon Tips I used the following script instead of doing all those registry edits:

Note: following the instructions regarding using “Save As Target” in IE or if in FF use the FF IE Tab Add on to switch to the IE engine and you’ll be able to get to the “Save As Target” option.

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scr.....ontips.htm

Here’s the PC World link but it just sends you to the one listed above.

http://www.pcworld.com/downloa.....ption.html

For disabling the Unused Desktop Icons thingy that is soooo annoying… (just cuz I haven’t used ‘em in awhile doesn’t mean I don’t want ‘em) in Windows I used this Script:

http://www.pcworld.com/downloa.....ption.html

Actually I keep a pretty clean desktop.. I hate messy desktops with 18 Gazillion icons but it’s still a cool script.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:03:13 +0000

To make it far simpler, just download the Tweak UI Powertoy:

http://www.microsoft.com/windo.....rtoys.mspx

By: daveydave

daveydave — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:14:03 +0000

@mayo, not being facetious but..firefox?

By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:42:45 +0000

did this edit and fixes the balloon thing whitch I’m extreamly happy about but now I”m having another issue. I have my start bar to auto hide so its off the screen until I move my mouse to the bottom. Now when I relog back in after going into standby or hibernation my laptop will reconnect back to my router and I get no balloon whitch I’m happy about. But now I have to click on the wireless icon in the system try and bring up the wireless network pannel just for the start bar to go back into auto hide any input on this I’m totaly stumped and would like to fix it.

By: Mayo

Mayo — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:05:32 +0000

This doesn’t work for I.E 7 ballons that annoyingly blink about when the mouse is over a text input area. I’ve tried I.E settings, this reg tip and others, but none of them work.
How do downgrade I.E ?

By: The Master

The Master — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:36:20 +0000

Turn the sounds off.

By: John

John — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:55:18 +0000

This method worked for disabling the balloons, but the sound is still there! My problem was with a recurring balloon, which is gone but i still get the “pop” every couple seconds. Is there any way to fix this?

By: TLR

TLR — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:46:40 +0000

Resolved! My security software finally caught on to my “System Alert!” problem. I updated my security soft many times before it worked. This reinforced my concerns about system security and I learned a little. Thanks!