The Limber Lambda

My take on this issue may not apply to everyone, but everytime some little app decides to contribute to the “system tray balloon tooltip” party I feel obliged to click on the damn thing just to get rid of it.  In a world where there is way too much clicking to start with, I’d rather not care.

Here’s how to suppress balloon tooltips:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000000

You may ask: “Will a dword:00000001 get them to come back again?”.  I tried–doesn’t seem to work.  Evidently the presence of the entry suppresses them.  Go figure.