Balloon notifications can be annoying many a times.Good thing is they can be disabled easily in Windows 7. To disable balloon tips in the notification area, follow these Methods:
1. Using GPEdit (Group Policy Editor)
This setting turns off the Balloon notification in the notification area using Group Policy editor .
Open Run Dialogue Box (Win + R) and type gpedit.msc
Navigate to Local Computer policy > User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu & Taskbar in left hand side pane.![]()
Select Turn off all Balloon notifications setting from right side pane.
Open it and enable it so that no notification balloons will be shown to the user. .
Press OK
2. Using RegEdit (Registry Editor)
Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then press ENTER.
Navigate to the following subkey: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Right-click the right side pane, create a new DWORD value, and then name it EnableBalloonTips.
Double-click EnableBalloonTips, and then give it a value of 0.
Close Registry Editor.
Note: To make changes to this setting effective, you must log off and then log back on.
