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Disable Ballon Tips
Name: Ballons Suck Date: July 21, 2002 at 22:53:13 Pacific
Comment:
How do I keep the stupid ballon tips in the system tray from popping up all the time?
Name: Balloons Suck Date: July 21, 2002 at 22:55:43 Pacific
Reply:
I know I misspelled balloons
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Response Number 2
Name: Anon Imus Date: July 21, 2002 at 23:09:01 Pacific
Reply:
I used Tweak UI
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Response Number 3
Name: tropic Date: July 21, 2002 at 23:11:24 Pacific
Reply:
Copy & Paste the following into Notepad, and save the file with an .reg extension. Then double-click the new file (Ex. TakeBackYourBalloonTips,Satan!.reg.) and click YES to enter the new key into the registry. You can also open REGEDIT and do it manually, of course.
Name: Ballons Suck Date: July 22, 2002 at 12:52:48 Pacific
Reply:
I've tried both but neither works for the balloon tips I'm trying stop.The ones I'm trying to sto are the ones that appear in the system tray when you do somting like connect to the internet with a modem,or send stuff to your cdrom to burn.Both the tips you guys gave me turn them off everywhere else and not in the system tray,Do you guys have any other tips to try?
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