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Disable Windows Print Notification Balloon

Disable Windows Print Notification Balloon

By Mitch Bartlett 7 Comments

How to turn off the annoying printer notification messages that appears when an event occurs on your printer in Microsoft Windows.

Windows 10, 8, 7, & Server 2012

Note: This option is not available in the Home versions of Windows.

  1. Press and hold the Windows Key, then press “R” to bring up the Windows Run dialog box.
  2. Type “printmanagement.msc“, then press “Enter“.
  3. Expand “Printer Servers“, then right click the name of the computer and select “Printer Server Properties“.
  4. Select the “Advanced” tab.
  5. Uncheck “Show Informational Notifications for Local Printers” and “Show Informational Notifications for Network Printers“.

Windows XP

  1. Click the “Start” > “Settings” > “Printers and Faxes“.
  2. Click the “File” > “Server Properties“.
  3. Click the “Advanced” tab.
  4. Uncheck the following boxes:
    • Show informational notifications for local printers.
    • Show informational notifications for network printers.
    • Notify when remote documents are printed.
  5. Click “OK“.

Now those annoying printer notification warnings should be turned off.

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Filed Under: Windows Tagged With: win7, Windows 10

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Comments

  1. aaa says

    February 16, 2020 at 10:10 am

    it works, thank you

  2. Khuda Hafiz says

    February 28, 2019 at 7:33 am

    worked perfectly, thanks a lot bro!

  3. buds says

    January 10, 2019 at 2:07 am

    I have already unchecked the box. It’s work for a while, but then it keeps showing again.

  4. bill says

    December 28, 2018 at 4:16 am

    Error: Can’t find printmanagement.msc

  5. M Russell says

    June 17, 2018 at 3:01 pm

    this did not work for me… sigh… I have not rebooted after doing this. Do you need to reboot to make the process “take”?

  6. Holly Fannin says

    February 15, 2018 at 12:05 pm

    My computer says it cannot find printmanagement.msc…..now what? Yes, I am using a PC with Windows 10

  7. Cynthia says

    March 8, 2017 at 10:50 am

    Worked perfectly…thanks!!!!

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