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We've all seen them. They're the distracting yellowish popup balloons that appear over the notification area in the Windows XP taskbar. A common one is for taking the Windows XP tour after a fresh install. Some application specific ones are for Resharper and Visual Studio. Is there a way to disable these popups on a system level, for good, so I never see them again?

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They're there for a reason - you'll be breaking functionality of a lot of programs by turning them off. – ajm Jul 15 '09 at 22:33
@Andy, there's a Microsoft KB article specifically referring to it as a "problem", and they provide a solution! :) Seems to me if this functionality was crucial then there shouldn't be an option to disable it. Regardless, I'll take the risk. – Jonathon Watney Jul 15 '09 at 23:00
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See this KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307729

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Exactly what I was looking for. – Jonathon Watney Jul 15 '09 at 22:54
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I believe the TweakUI utility (224kb) comes with an option to "disable balloon tips"

Here's a screenshot:

Enable balloon tips

Disabling the first option should achieve what you want.

Plus, it has lots of other cool settings to mess with. :)

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Thanks for that but the regedit instructions that Adam linked to was exactly what I was looking for. – Jonathon Watney Jul 15 '09 at 22:54
it's all good. I consider TweakUI a must have which is why I recommended it over simply editing the registry. – Paolo Bergantino Jul 15 '09 at 23:03
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