How do I turn off these damn balloons?
Er… which balloons?
peers around her computer, and doesn’t see any balloons
Do you mean the tool-tip thingies?
<< Wheeeeeeeeeeee! >>
GPEDIT.MSC has “Remove Balloon Tips on start menu items”
But what about the task bar with “Eat At Joes’s!” “Sign Up For The Microsoft network”, and “Your Message Here-Call B. Gates”
I can turn off the task bar, but Ihaven’t figured out how to kill just the balloons.
If you’re comfortable playing with your registry:
1. Launch **regedit**.
2. Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
3. Create a new DWORD value called EnableBalloonTips.
4. Give the entry a value of 0 to disable the tips or 1 to turn them back on.
Hmmm. I did some quick looking, and the TweakUI from Microsoft has something for the balloon tips, as does Xteq’s utility. But, that isn’t quite what you’re looking for, and it sounds like you’ve solved that particular problem so…
hunts some more
Xteq has a way to remove the ‘tour balloon popup’, which I think is different from the item you’re trying to get rid of. (That should dissapear automaticcaly after the first three times you log on.) It’s not the ‘<–Start here!’ message is it?
(I don’t have this happening on my comp, so either it never did or I figured out how to stop it so long ago that my method sunk into the depths of oblivion.)