Blast you, balloons!

September 21, 2005 7:31 PM

I have a new laptop running win XP home, and I want the speech balloons to go away.

Whenever something exciting happens, like if I connect to a wireless network or have a low battery, a speech balloon pops up coming from the relevant status icon and displays a message. This is annoying and I can't figure out how to turn it off.

I tried searching microsoft help, which seemed to suggest changing the registry, but the procedure suggested did not work.

posted by mai to computers & internet (4 comments total)

you want Tweak UI.
posted by flod at 8:05 PM on September 21, 2005

www.autopatcher.com not only lets you do this, but patches your computer up to August 2005, and speed improvements to your computer.
posted by Dean Keaton at 8:57 PM on September 21, 2005

xp antispy will also tun them off.
posted by squeak at 11:30 PM on September 21, 2005

ahem *turn them
posted by squeak at 11:31 PM on September 21, 2005