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Windows XP may be one of the more stable and developed operating systems (Vista is like a beta right now ). But there are many irritating aspects in Windows XP.

Windows has a really stupid popup system, which pops up for every unnecessary thing imaginable. For example, there is a popup to warn that disk space is low on the system drive (usually C:\). Also, there is a popup for alerting you that a new program installed. As if you didn’t know that you’ve installed a program! []

There is an easy registry hack to get rid of all these popups. Do not be appalled by a registry edit - this is really simple.

Open up the registry editor - go to Run, type regedit and click OK. Backing up the registry before a hack is always a good idea, so click File > Export, choose a location and click save. Then, proceed to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced

Right click on the right-hand pane, make New> DWORD Value and name it EnableBallonTips. Set the value to 0 to disable ballontips, and set it back to 1 to enable balloontips.

This hack disables most balloontips. In order to eliminate all popups, some more work is required. In each of the following locations, change the values to 0 to disable balloontips.

* Location: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced\
1. Change the value of FolderContentsInfoTip to 0

* Location: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced\
1. Change the value of ShowInfoTip to 0.

* Location: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\tips\Show
1. Change the value of Show to 0

If anything goes wrong, restore the registry file that you had edited before and settings will be restored

bholu

thanks for this

just4kix

Good information.

powerdoc

What if Windows want to pop up something critical & you have disabled it.
Should be avoided in my opinion.

newprouser

IMO it does nothing good rather than annoy people even more. For newbies, they won't understand what it means and for geeks they won't even bother abt it

saurav_k

quite true ... and thanks for this info ...

dnash

Hmm I find some of the popups really helpful, like the low disk space, low virtual memory stuff....dunno why anyone would want to disable those...

saaam

nice one thanks

powerdoc

When I was a newbie, I used to worry when any message popped up.So out of curiosity, I used to google & always got the right info.
That's how your knowledge expands & when you eventually become a computer geek, you can safely ignore them.