Comments on: Blast you, balloons!

Question: Blast you, balloons!

mai — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 19:31:00 -0800

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.

By: flod

flod — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:05:23 -0800

you want Tweak UI.

By: Dean Keaton

Dean Keaton — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:57:24 -0800

www.autopatcher.com not only lets you do this, but patches your computer up to August 2005, and speed improvements to your computer.

By: squeak

squeak — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:30:29 -0800

xp antispy will also tun them off.

By: squeak

squeak — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:31:11 -0800

ahem *turn them