Shut Off Notification Balloons in Windows XP

with Don Schechter

Transcript: Shut Off Notification Balloons in Windows XP

Hi, I'm Don Schechter for About.com Computing. Today I'll show you how to stop notification balloons from popping up every time you plug in your mp3 player or other device.

CLICK Start menu

CLICK Run

TYPE 'regedit'

CLICK 'OK'

DOUBLE CLICK HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Software / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion / Explorer /

Advanced (on the left column)

CLICK Edit / New / DWORD Value

NAME the key EnableBalloonTips (with no spaces like this)

DOUBLE-CLICK EnableBalloonTips entry to open the Edit DWORD value window

ENTER '0' into the value data box to disable notifications

If you ever decide to turn the notifications back on, type '1.' In order for these changes to be applied to your computer, you must close out of the registry editor and reboot your computer.

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