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Name: dai23
Date: January 18, 2003 at 06:08:00 Pacific
OS: Winxp
CPU/Ram: p3-800/640
Comment:

hi, every time i connected to the internet(DSL), a balloon pop-up at the taskbar will say "Sympatico is now connect at 10.0 MBP".. how do i disable that?



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Response Number 1
Name: marc2003
Date: January 18, 2003 at 06:22:57 Pacific
Reply:

goto start, run, type regedit. navigate to
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
Advanced]
create a new DWORD value called EnableBalloonTips and set the value to 0. Change the value to 1 to get balloons back.


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Response Number 2
Name: chad
Date: January 18, 2003 at 06:24:26 Pacific
Reply:

You can start out by disabling automatic updating. right click on my computer and then go to auto. update. turn that off, unless you really want it. For all others, you can use Tweak UI found in the powertoys package. there is an option under "taskbar" where you can turn off balloon tips.


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Response Number 3
Name: mo
Date: January 18, 2003 at 07:59:25 Pacific
Reply:

Those tips will remove not only the highly annoying one dai23 wants gone, it will disable all balloon tips in XP.


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Response Number 4
Name: terryco
Date: January 18, 2003 at 07:59:54 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks Chad that Balloon has been bugging me ever since I had Xp just over a year ago.

I used Tweak you to disable it in two ticks!!
Cheers Terryco.


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Response Number 5
Name: terryco
Date: January 18, 2003 at 08:06:13 Pacific
Reply:

Mo now I've disabled the Balloon on connecting to the net you say it will disable others. What are they please?
Terryco


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Response Number 6
Name: mo
Date: January 18, 2003 at 08:32:09 Pacific
Reply:

terryco,

Please excuse me I was wrong. I mistakenly thought all balloon tips would be removed. I found out by disabling with Tweakui also. I should have tried it before posting. Sorry!


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Response Number 7
Name: Domzy
Date: January 18, 2003 at 09:55:50 Pacific
Reply:

If you are going marc2003's registry way, don't forget to reboot before complaining it's not working.


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Response Number 8
Name: KiNeL
Date: January 18, 2003 at 11:19:38 Pacific
Reply:

Here's a visual basic script to do the job.

Copy the following into notepad or your favourite text editor, save as whatever you like but with .vbs extension, say.. kill_baloon_tips.vbs


'xp_balloontips.vbs - Disables/Enables Windows XP BalloonTips
'© Doug Knox - rev 02/06/2002
'This code may be freely distributed/modified

Option Explicit

'Declare variables
Dim WSHShell, n, MyBox, p, itemtype, Title

Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
p = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\"
p = p & "EnableBalloonTips"
itemtype = "REG_DWORD"
n = 0

WSHShell.RegWrite p, n, itemtype
Title = "Balloon Tips are now Disabled." & vbCR
Title = Title & "You may need to log off/log on" & vbCR
Title = Title & "For the change to take effect."
MyBox = MsgBox(Title,4096,"Finished")

Now double click on it.

If your AntiVirus chokes on it you can safely ignore any warnings.


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