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  1. 08-08-2003, 09:37 PM #1
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    Annoying XP "tool tips"

    Is there anyway to disable the annoying reminder that pops up every 5-10 minutes to tell me my hard drive is low on disk space?

    I can't stand this thing, I have nothing to "clean up" on the drive (empty temp files/recycle bin/etc) but it never goes away???
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    If this is a balloon tip(I haven't run low on HDD space in years so I've never seen that) here's a way to disable them:

    START - RUN - REGEDIT
    Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer\Advanced
    and set the value of 'EnableBalloonTips' to 0.

    Or use TweakUI..
    Last edited by Brahma; 08-09-2003 at 03:06 AM.
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  3. 08-09-2003, 07:36 PM #3
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    Brahma,

    Do you know which reg value to change so that I can disable every popup balloon? For example my quick launch icons have a popup balloon thats really annoying.
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    Originally posted by 9TIGERS
    Brahma,

    Do you know which reg value to change so that I can disable every popup balloon? For example my quick launch icons have a popup balloon thats really annoying.
    It's in the same place as above. It's called 'StartbuttonBalloon'
    Set value to "0". That should take care of the ones you're talking about.
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  6. 08-09-2003, 11:26 PM #5
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    Or you could use tweakui which lets you customize that and a whole wack of other things.
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    Originally posted by Remington
    Or you could use tweakui which lets you customize that and a whole wack of other things.
    Wish I'd said that, oh wait, I did.
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    Originally posted by Brahma


    Wish I'd said that, oh wait, I did.
    Ah but I have a link in there
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