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How to Enable or Disable Notification Area Balloon Tips in Vista Information | | This will show you how to disable or enable the pop-up balloon tips in the Notification area of the taskbar for a current user or all users. The Notification area balloon tips are enabled by default in Vista. |  | NOTE | | This will not affect the menu pop-ups for the notification icons when you click or right click on them. |  | RELATED LINKS:EXAMPLE: Notification Area Balloon Tips Enabled and Disabled NOTE: For this example, I disabled my antivirus program to trigger a notification area balloon tip for it.  
| OPTION ONE: |
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| For the Current User Only |
NOTE | | This will only disable or enable the notification area balloon tips for the user account that this is done in. For all user accounts, see OPTION TWO below. | | | METHOD ONE: |
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| Through a Download |
1. To Disable Notification Area Balloon Tips - A) Click on the download button below to download the Disable_Current_User_Balloon_Tips.reg file.
B) Go to step 3.
2. To Enable Notification Area Balloon Tips -A) Click on the download button below to download the Enable_Current_User_Balloon_Tips.reg file.
3. Click on Save, and save the .reg file to the Desktop.
4. Right click the .reg (On Desktop) file and click on Merge.
5. Click on Run in the Security Warning pop-up.
6. Click on Continue (UAC), Yes, and then OK when prompted.
7. Log off and log on, or restart the computer to apply the changes.
8. When done, you can delete the .reg file (On Desktop).
| METHOD TWO: |
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| The Manual Way |
1. Open the Start Menu.
2. In the white line (Start Search) area, type regedit and press Enter.
3. Click on Continue in the UAC prompt.
4. In regedit, go to: (See screenshot below)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
5. To Disable Notification Area Balloon Tips -A) In the right pane, right click on a empty area and click on New and DWORD (32-bit) Value. (See screenshot above)
B) Type EnableBalloonTips and press Enter. (See screenshot below)
C) Go to step 7.
6. To Enable Notification Area Balloon Tips -A) In the right pane, right click on EnableBalloonTips and click on Delete. (See screenshot above)
B) Click on Yes to confirm deletion.
7. Close regedit.
8. Log off and log on, or restart the computer to apply the changes.
NOTE | | This will disable or enable the notification area balloon tips for all user accounts on the computer. For a single user account, see OPTION ONE above. | | | METHOD ONE: |
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| Through the Local Group Policy Editor |
NOTE | | This method is only available for the Vista Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions. See Method Two below for the Vista Home Basic and Home Premium editions. | | 1. Open the Local Group Policy Editor.
2. In the left pane, click on User Configuration, Administrative Templates, and Start Menu and Taskbar. (See screenshot below)
3. In the right pane, right click on Turn off all balloon notifications and click on Properties. (See screenshot above)
4. To Enable Notification Area Balloon Tips - A) Dot Disabled or Not Configured and click on OK. (See screenshot below step 5A)
B) Go to step 6.
5. To Disable Notification Area Balloon Tips - A) Dot Enabled and click on OK.
6. Close the Local Group Policy Editor window. Your done.
| METHOD TWO: |
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| Through the Registry |
NOTE | | This method will work for all Vista versions. | | Through a Download:1. To Disable Notification Area Balloon Tips - A) Click on the download button below to download the
Disable_All_Users_User_Balloon_Tips.reg file.
B) Go to step 3.
2. To Enable Notification Area Balloon Tips - A) Click on the download button below to download the
Enable_All_Users_User_Balloon_Tips.reg file.
3. Click on Save, and save the .reg file to the Desktop.
4. Right click the .reg (On Desktop) file and click on Merge.
5. Click on the Run button for Security Warning pop-up.
6. Click on Continue (UAC), Yes, and then OK when prompted.
7. Logoff and logon, or restart the computer to apply the changes.
8. When done, you can delete the .reg file (On Desktop).
The Manual Way:1. Open the Start Menu.
2. In the white line (Start Search) area, type regedit and press Enter.
3. Click on Continue in the UAC prompt.
4. In regedit, go to: (See screenshot below)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
NOTE: If you do not have Explorer, then right click on Policies and click on New then Key and type Explorer and press Enter.
5. To Disable Notification Area Balloon Tips -A) In the right pane, right click on a empty area and click on New and DWORD (32-bit) Value. (See screenshot above)
B) Type TaskbarNoNotification and press Enter. (See screenshot below)
C) Right click on TaskbarNoNotification and click on Modify.
D) Type 1 and click on OK. (See screenshot below)
E) The registry will now look like this. (See screenshot below)
F) Go to step 7.
6. To Enable Notification Area Balloon Tips -A) In the right pane, right click on TaskbarNoNotification and click on Delete. (See screenshot above)
B) Click on Yes to confirm deletion.
C) In regedit, go to: (See screenshot below)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
NOTE: If you do not have Explorer, then right click on Policies and click on New then Key and type Explorer and press Enter.
D) In the right pane, repeat steps 6A and 6B if TaskbarNoNotification is there to.
7. Close regedit.
8. Log off and log on, or restart the computer to apply the changes.
That's it,
Shawn |  Published by | | Administrator Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Texas, USA
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Applies to | | All Vista Versions | | 64 Bit & 32 Bit | |
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04-21-2008
