turn off ballon for hide icons

thewolfe · Post by **thewolfe** » Sun May 16, 2004 6:02 pm

How do I turn off the "baloon" tip that icons are being hidden in system tray.

I want them hidden I just don't want to be notified.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Sun May 16, 2004 9:07 pm

What kind of balloon tips are you getting? That stupid "Desktop Cleaning Wizard" alert? You can turn that off in your desktop properties easily. (under customize desktop)

thewolfe · Post by **thewolfe** » Sun May 16, 2004 9:55 pm

No, this is the one that says my icons are being hidden.

Tyranny · Post by **Tyranny** » Mon May 17, 2004 12:12 am

Its the balloon tips that show up when XP tries to notify you about something in the system tray MD.

thewolfe, open regedit and do the following:
Go to...
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Create a new DWORD value (or modify the value, if it exists) called EnableBalloonTips and set the value to 0. Exit regedit, and restart or log out for the changes to take effect.

Just be careful with regedit. I'm not responsible if anything goes wrong

Doing this will disable the balloon tip dialog from displaying to notify you about other things altogether.

I think it also disables balloon tips from being displayed anywhere in windows. There isn't a specific way for you to stop it from showing that specific notice unless you turned icons back on.

Atleast not that I know of.

btw, google is your friend... http://www.aaltonen.us/archives/000181.html

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Mon May 17, 2004 11:25 am

I dont spose anyone know how to do this in win2k do they? I tried this and it didnt work after logging off. I'd like to eliminate the balloon tips that pop up when a network connection changes state from connected to disconnected. I'd like the tray icon to change, but not that annoying balloon tip.

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Mon May 17, 2004 11:43 am

Oh also, anyone know where to get the win2k version of the "command line here" powertoy? Thats like one of the neater little utilities I miss from the win9x days.

Topher · Post by **Topher** » Mon May 17, 2004 12:33 pm

Vader wrote:Oh also, anyone know where to get the win2k version of the "command line here" powertoy? Thats like one of the neater little utilities I miss from the win9x days.

Here's one for XP, it may or may not work for 2000...

http://www.theeldergeek.com/windows_xp_power_toys.htm

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Mon May 17, 2004 1:05 pm

http://download.microsoft.com/download/ ... ySetup.exe

from: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/ ... ertoys.asp

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Mon May 17, 2004 3:27 pm

thewolfe wrote:No, this is the one that says my icons are being hidden.

Ohh, you can turn off hidden icons by clicking the start button, going to settings and clicking on "Taskbar and Start Menu". Uncheck "Hide inactive icons". (This is assuming you have the n00bish menu turned off and you're using the classic menu.)

If you left the ugly ass new menu style enabled:

Click on start, and click on "Control Panel'. Double-click on "Taskbar and Start Menu" and uncheck "hide inactive icons". (If you have the "Category View" enabled, click on "Appearance and Themes" and THEN double-click on "Taskbar and Start Menu") just FYI.

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Mon May 17, 2004 3:40 pm

Topher wrote:
Vader wrote:Oh also, anyone know where to get the win2k version of the "command line here" powertoy? Thats like one of the neater little utilities I miss from the win9x days.

Here's one for XP, it may or may not work for 2000...

http://www.theeldergeek.com/windows_xp_power_toys.htm

Tried to install all the xp powertoys last night. All gave "I dont like your windows version" errors.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Mon May 17, 2004 4:10 pm

Vader wrote:Tried to install all the xp powertoys last night. All gave "I dont like your windows version" errors.

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBG/TIP3200/rh3216.htm

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Mon May 17, 2004 9:12 pm

Thank you for your helpful and informitive response.

Tyranny · Post by **Tyranny** » Tue May 18, 2004 12:48 am

MD...he turned his icons off on purpose. He wants to know how to disable the balloon message that come up telling him his icons are disabled (which he wants).

Thats what my post shows him how to do.