How to disable balloon tips in Vista

This article explains how to disable Balloon Tips in Windows Vista. I personally think that Balloon Tips have no right to be there at all, they look awful and most do not contain information that are important in any way.

Let me explain how you can disable balloon tips in Windows Vista.

Press Windows+R, enter gpedit.msc and hit enter. This opens the Group Policy Editor. Please note that the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) is not available in Windows Vista Home and Vista Home Premium. I’m going to outline how to disable balloon tips on those editions at the end

Go to User Configuration, Administrative Templates, Start Menu and Taskbar.

Select Remove Balloon Tips, right-click it and choose properties from the context menu

Select Enable from the options and click ok

Close the Group Policy Editor

Reboot Windows Vista

As I said earlier gpedit.msc is not available in Windows Vista Home and Home Premium which means that we have to rely on the registry to disable those annoying balloon tips in Windows Vista.

Press Windows+R, type regedit and hit enter. This starts the registry editor.

Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER / SOFTWARE / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion / Explorer / Advanced

Create a new Dword and name it EnableBalloonTips

The value should be automatically set to 0, if it is not change it to 0

Reboot Windows Vista

posted by Tony