How To: Disable All Notification Area Balloon Tips In Windows Vista
One of the most annoying features of Windows Vista is the constant,irritating, work-interrupting balloon messages in the notification area.These balloon tips can be off Automatic Update,security reminders,anti-virus updates,speech balloon announcements or other system updates.By any of the two simple methods you can easily disable the balloon notifications in Windows Vista.
Method 1:Using Group Policy Editor
- Start up the Group Policy Editor in Windows Vista by press Windows+R, enter gpedit.msc and hit Enter.
- Click Continue to the Annoying Windows Vista User Account Control(UAC) Prompt
- Navigate to the following branch:
User Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ Start Menu and Taskbar
- Double-click Turn off all balloon notifications and set it to Enabled
- Close Group Policy Editor and restart your Windows Vista computer.
Note: Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) is not available in Windows Vista Home and Vista Home Premium editions,so do the second method.
Method 2: Using Registry Editor
- Click on Windows Vista Start, Run and type Regedit.exe
- Navigate to the following registry subkey:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Advanced
- Create a new REG_DWORD (32 bit) value named EnableBalloonTips
- Double-click EnableBalloonTips, and then assign a value data of 0
- Exit the Registry Editor
- Log off Windows Vista, and then log back on.
Alternate Method:
Download, extract, and double-click on DisableBalloonTipsVista.reg to merge the registry values into the Windows registry to disable the balloon notifications in Windows Vista. You can use the included EnableBalloonTipsVista.reg file to rollback the changes.
Disable Windows Vista Balloon Notifications(Download)
Warning: Modifying the Windows registry can cause serious damage to your Windows Operating System.It is better to backup your Windows registry data before making any changes. Tomstricks.com is not responsible for any changes you may make to your system.
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Written by Tony on February 25th, 2009 with
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#1. July 31st, 2009, at 9:40 PM.
Nice tips, but I like the Windows Vista Security Center warning message if my virus definitions are not up-to-date, but I don’t like the way Vista does not let the user turn off the Windows Firewall warning message. If the user is connected to a router’s firewall then it’s fairly safe to disable the Windows software firewall. In XP it was easy, a checkbox was provided for each balloon popup warning, but in Vista you only have the option to turn all or none off. One of the workarounds to this limitation is to edit the Windows Registry key. For example, you can disable the balloon popup warning when UAC is disabled, you just need to set the key EnableLUA to 0 and it will turn off the annoying balloon message. But I am wondering where is the similar registry key to disable the balloon message when Vista’s firewall is disabled???