Win XP - BL@@DY info bubbles off the icon bar

[fish]

How do you turn the flippin pop up bubbles off that try to help from the icon bar in the bottom right.

Help much appreciated...

[Bodo]

I wondered how to stop them too, when setting up my dad's new Dell PC. Installed Linux, and they disappeared

[fish]

Thanks for the useful input....my dad struggles with windows let alone any other op system

[Podie]

Not sure which bubbles you're talking about... but right click on it, and you should get an option menu...

[fish]

They appear whenever anything happens, ie. You get a local network connection a bubble appears saying local area connected at 100mbps etc then ie dissappears after a while.

They pop up for all sorts of things...annoying

[dontlift]

I know the ones you mean Fish, and I havnt found out how to turn them off myself either, turned off just obout everything else in XP though

[fish]

Another one with XP Pro....How do you stop it generating MY Pictures and MY MUSIC etc. If you delete them they reset themselves.....MICROSOFT I DON'T WANT THE BL@@DY FOLDERS...

Any thoughts

[tja]

fish said: Another one with XP Pro....How do you stop it generating MY Pictures and MY MUSIC etc. If you delete them they reset themselves.....MICROSOFT I DON'T WANT THE BL@@DY FOLDERS...

Any thoughts

A quick search through the registry will probably help, although it may be that you can only "move" them and not get rid of them completely

[fish]

Don't really want to play with the registry.....still can't fins the check box "disable the annoying microsoft knows best functionality, oh yes please treat me like a child and inform me of everything while I have everything set up like an microsoft demands whether or not I want it"

[arcturus]

To turn off what MS calls the Notification Area Ballon Tips needs a registry hack. For those happy messing around in the registry, details follow, for those that want to read the whole article from MS first, go here http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q307729

The Hack:

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then press ENTER.

2. Navigate to the following subkey:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced

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.

Dave Clarke
www.arctsys.co.uk

>> Edited by arcturus on Tuesday 27th May 21:56

[fish]

Cheers

[miniman]

You can also download "TweakUI for XP" from www.microsoft.com/windowsxp and look for "PowerToys"

The setting is under Taskbar... Enable Balloon Tips

HTH