XP Pop-ups on taskbar, turning them off

[HELLBRINGER 0]

How do I turn off the stupid, annoying pop-up messages on the XP taskbar, such as the take a tour, or low disk space, etc... They are exceptionally annoying.

 

Thanks

[Admiral LSD 0]

I adopt an "ignore it and it'll go away" attitude myself, they usually do.

[HELLBRINGER 0]

Well that is not very helpful, everyone can ignore it. I'm sure there is a way to eliminate them. Perhaps I will take some time to look.

 

Thank you.

[lumpy 0]

Powertoys Tweahui for WinXP will get rid of the low disk space one,

I can get rid of the tour, but I can't remember exactly how, but, it could be right click on the icon and, IF I remember correctly, you can get rid of it there.

[Sampson 0]

I'm not sure this is exactly what you want to get rid of but this is a registry hack (Microsoft approved) to rid you of some messages:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

Right-click the right pane, create a new DWORD value, and then name it EnableBalloonTips

Double-click this new entry, and then give it a hexadecimal value of 0

Quit Registry Editor. Log off Windows, and then log back on.

[Alien 1]

To get rid of the Windows Tour bubble, simply click it so that a window for the tour opens, then hit cancel in that window - sorted.

[Shakedown 0]

Open My Computer

 

Tools / Folder Options

Click the View Tab

Remove check next to "Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items"

[Alien 1]

Quote:

Open My Computer

Tools / Folder Options
Click the View Tab
Remove check next to "Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items"

I don't think those are the ones he means, that's tooltips, etc - he's on about the things like the bubble you get that tells you your HDD/partition is full, or telling you to take the windows tour.

[CUViper 0]

Xteq X-Setup can disable these things...

[HELLBRINGER 0]

Awesome thank you. I got it thanks to you guys.

 

Thanks!

Cheers