HOW TO: Disable Notification Area Balloon Tips in Windows XP

To Disable The Notification Area Balloon Tips

Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

1.	Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then press ENTER.
2.	Navigate to the following subkey: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
3.	Right-click the right pane, create a new DWORD value, and then name it EnableBalloonTips.
4.	Double-click this new entry, and then give it a hexadecimal value of 0.
5.	Quit Registry Editor. Log off Windows, and then log back on.

These steps disable all Notification Area balloon tips for this user. There is no way to disable balloon tips for specific programs only.