Disable All Notification Balloons in Windows Vista
June 16, 2008
If you find the popup notification balloons in the Windows Vista system tray to be annoying, you might be interested to know that you can completely disable them. Typically you can just turn them off in the applications causing the notifications (probably you’re best bet), but if you want to disable them across the board, this is the solution.
Note: I’m not necessarily recommending that everybody do this… you should only bother with it if you need to solve this particular problem.
Manual Registry Hack
Open up regedit.exe through the start menu search or run box, and then browse down to the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Right-click on the right-hand pane, and create a new 32-bit DWORD with the following values:
- Name: EnableBalloonTips
- Value: 0
You’ll have to logoff and back on in order to see the change.
