balloon be gone?

Anyone know if it's possible to prevent that annoying balloon from
popping up telling you which wireless network you are connected to when
using the Windows wireless configuration?

Lars M. Hansen
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Remove "bad" from my e-mail address to contact me.
"If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?"

 

Taking a moment's reflection, Lars M. Hansen mused:
|
| Anyone know if it's possible to prevent that annoying balloon from
| popping up telling you which wireless network you are connected to when
| using the Windows wireless configuration?

I've been combing the web looking for this same answer this last week.

 

I've been forced to follow time honored advice for dealing with pests:
ignore it and it will go away.

 

go to network connections and unclick "notify me then connection is
awailable" at the bottom.

 

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:58:57 -0400, big hole in the head spoketh

Doesn't have that anymore. That may have been pre-SP2. Now it says
"notify me when this connection is limited or no connectivity".

The only way to get rid of it is to disable showing the icon in the
systray, but I'd rather keep the icon...

Lars M. Hansen
http://www.hansenonline.net
(replace 'badnews' with 'news' in e-mail address)

 

Lars,

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307729&Product=winxp

This works in SP1, not sure about SP2. HTH

 

Taking a moment's reflection, Louie mused:
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|
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307729&Product=winxp
|
| This works in SP1, not sure about SP2. HTH

That's something I have already tried. It did not work for me.

 

Sorry 'bout that. It works on my Gateway Essential 866. I'll Google some
more and see what I can come up with.

 

Download the TweakUI tool from:
<http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/c/a/fca6767b-9ed9-45a6-
b352-839afb2a2679/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe>

Click on Taskbar in the lefthand pane, and uncheck 'Enable balloon
tips' on the right.

Hope this helps

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On 31 Aug 2004 01:09:06 GMT, Richard Perkin spoketh

I have a distinct feeling that'll do just about the same as the registry
hack mentioned before. It'll disable all the balloons, not just the ones
specific to the wireless service.

Lars M. Hansen
www.hansenonline.net
Remove "bad" from my e-mail address to contact me.
"If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?"

 

Didn't realize it before, but X-Setup (www.xteq.com) by Xteq Systems has a
way to disable XP's "balloon tips". Again, this works on my particular PC.
YMMV

If you decide to D/L and install, after starting the program, choose
"Classic" mode. Entry is under "Appearance", "Interface", "Tool
Tips/Balloon Tips", "Windows XP Balloon Tips". Uncheck the box on top
right. Restart your PC. HTH

 

Taking a moment's reflection, Richard Perkin mused:
|

| Download the TweakUI tool from:

You know, I knew TweakUI had that setting, but I couldn't find it. Your
description of clicking on the left pane menu jogged my memory ... for some
reason, on this laptop, TweakUI installs the older version. The one with
the tabs clustered on the top. I have downloaded it from MS, and from
another site. The other site had a screen shot showing the correct
interface ... but that's not what I get.

On my main XP install box, I have TweakUI in the Administrator Tools,
and it looks right. On this laptop, it is in the main Control Panels group,
and looks like the old TweakUI. The difference was it was installed on my
main box *before* SP2, and *after* SP2 on the laptop. Perhaps the installer
has a bad OS version verification.

But, Lars, you are correct. This setting in TweakUI disabled *all*
balloons.

 

Didn't work for my Dell Latitude D600 laptop (WinXPsp1) either. I
thought I saw something about those 'popups' in the Windows Taskbar(?)
configuration, but I can't find it any more...

 

you can do this with tweakUI from MS....its under annoyance/paranoia
settings