How do you shut off the annoying little pop up that come up on the system tray icons? I think they started after downloading sp2.

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The internet connection icon will have a bubble come up 'now connected to'. They are just annoying.

This taken from Help and Support HOW TO: Disable Notification Area Balloon Tips in Windows XP Article ID : 307729 Last Review : January 16, 2004 Revision : 1.0 This article was previously published under Q307729 IN THIS TASK • SUMMARY • To Disable The Notification Area Balloon Tips • REFERENCES On this Page SUMMARY REFERENCES Important This article contains information about modifying the registry. Before you modify the registry, make sure to back it up and make sure that you understand how to restore the registry if a problem occurs. For information about how to back up, restore, and edit the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 256986 Description of the Microsoft Windows Registry SUMMARY This article explains how to disable Notification Area balloon tips. back to the top To Disable The Notification Area Balloon Tips Warning If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then press ENTER. 2. Navigate to the following subkey: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced 3. Right-click the right pane, create a new DWORD value, and then name it EnableBalloonTips. 4. Double-click this new entry, and then give it a hexadecimal value of 0. 5. Quit Registry Editor. Log off Windows, and then log back on. These steps disable all Notification Area balloon tips for this user. There is no way to disable balloon tips for specific programs only. back to the top REFERENCES For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 282962 Balloon Tips Are Not Read by Narrator Accessibility Tool back to the top ---------------------- APPLIES TO • Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition • Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition Top of Page Keywords: kbhowtomaster KB307729 Top of Page

Thanks, I'll try it.

It didn't work, but thanks anyway.