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Mar 7, 2002, 8:16:29 PM3/7/02
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How to re-enable balloon tips?
What value is it in reg?

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Jason Tsang

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Mar 7, 2002, 9:00:22 PM3/7/02
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Goto The Key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advance
d

Create a new DWORD value, name it EnableBalloonTips, and set it equal to 1.
If EnableBalloonTips is already there and equal to 0, set it equal to 1.

Quit the registry editor, log off, and log back on.

That will enable the balloon tips.

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Z

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Mar 7, 2002, 9:09:08 PM3/7/02
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Thanks.

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Jason Tsang

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Mar 7, 2002, 9:20:41 PM3/7/02
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No prob!

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Mar 7, 2002, 9:30:51 PM3/7/02
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One question though, this script:

'xp_balloontips.vbs - Disables/Enables Windows XP BalloonTips
'© Doug Knox - rev 02/06/2002
'This code may be freely distributed/modified

Option Explicit

'Declare variables
Dim WSHShell, n, MyBox, p, itemtype, Title

Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
p =


"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanc

ed\"
p = p & "EnableBalloonTips"
itemtype = "REG_DWORD"
n = 1

WSHShell.RegWrite p, n, itemtype
Title = "Balloon Tips are now Disabled." & vbCR
Title = Title & "You may need to log off/log on" & vbCR
Title = Title & "For the change to take effect."
MyBox = MsgBox(Title,4096,"Finished")

Leaves the value at 1 not 0??

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Jason Tsang

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Mar 8, 2002, 1:12:32 AM3/8/02
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As per this article
http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307729


In the disabled state, the value is 0
Therefore, in its enabled state, the value should be 1 (or delete the dword value enableballontips)

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