Disable the annoying Windows Vista popup tip and reminder balloons.
1. Click START and type gpedit.msc and press ENTER.
2. Go to User Configuration–>Administrative Templates–>Start Menu and Taskbar
3. Right-click on Remove Balloon Tips under Start Menu items, and select Properties.
4. Select Enable and click OK.
Close Group Policy Editor and now the balloons should no longer appear.
When performing certain actions in Windows Vista, you are given the following message:
Windows needs your permission to continue
If you started this action, continue.
And you are give the options to Continue or Cancel.
In some cases you are prompted for an administrator username and password.
This appears to make sure you are the one performing these actions instead of a rogue program such as virus or spyware on your computer. You can click Continue or you may need an administrator username and password to be entered.
It is part of the Windows Vista User Account Control (UAC) feature. You can find out more information about it here.
If you wish to disable this feature and prevent these messages from appearing, you must be an administrator and you can follow the steps to disable UAC in the Technipages article Enable/Disable User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista
Update:
We have also found instructions for disabling this dialog. We have not tested this yet, but feel free to try it.
Disable User Account Control in Windows Vista.
1. Click Start, in the Start Search type control userpasswords and click OK
2. Click Turn User Account Control on or off
3. Uncheck Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer to disable User Account Control or check it to enable User Account Control. Then click OK
4. Restart Windows.
Disable the message from appearing warning you that “The Publisher Could Not Be Verified” when you run certain files.
1. Click Start–>Run and type gpedit.msc. Click OK
2. Go to User Configuration–>Administrative Templates–>Windows Components–>Attachment Manager
3. Add “*.exe” to the “Inclusion list for moderate risk file types” setting. You can also add other file types.
This should disable the “Publisher Could Not Be Verified” messages from appearing for that file type in the future.
This tip was based on tips from the link below:
http://blog.davestechshop.net/archive/2006/10/30/IE7PublisherCouldNotBeVerified.aspx
Enable or disable the warning message that says the following:
You are running out of disk space on [drive]. To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files, click here.
1. Click START–>RUN and type REGEDIT. Click OK.
2. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
then SOFTWARE
then Microsoft
then Windows
then CurrentVersion
then Policies
then Explorer
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Disable the annoying balloon tips messages that appear in Windows Vista.
1. Click START and in the Start Search and type REGEDIT
2. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
then SOFTWARE
then Microsoft
then Windows
then CurrentVersion
then Explorer
Right-click on ADVANCED and Select NEW–>DWORD VALUE
Name it EnableBalloonTips
Double-click EnableBalloonTips, and then give it a value of 0
This setting should disable the balloon tips messages from appearing in the future.
Disable the annoying message “There are unused icons on your desktop” from appearing in Windows XP
1. Right-click an empty part of your desktop and select Properties.
2. Select the Desktop tab, and then click Customize Desktop..
3. Uncheck Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard every 60 days box.
4. Click OK, then OK again.
Does the message Wireless Network Connection is not connected keep popping up every time your computer reconnects? If it annoys you, this is how you can disable it.
Right click on MY NETWORK PLACES and select PROPERTIES
Right click on your WIRELESS NETWORK connection and select PROPERTIES
Uncheck the box that says Show icon in notification area when connected
Get rid of those Windows XP balloons that pop-up informing you that your “computer may be at risk”.
Disable the Your computer might be at risk message. It may also be accompanied by one of the following:
No firewall is turned on
Automatic Updates is turned off
Your virus protection is unknown
To get rid of these annoying messages, perform the following steps:
1. Go to START–>SETTINGS and CONTROL PANEL or START–>CONTROL PANEL (depends on your setup)
2. Double click AUTOMATIC UPDATES
3. On the right click CHANGE THE WAY SECURITY CENTER ALERTS ME.
4. Uncheck the boxes that you wish to disable. Uncheck all 3 to prevent this message from coming up at all in the future.
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