How do I turn off ballons?

Ok I got a new Compaq presario for Christmas with Win XP Home ed. on it. My problem or annoyance is this everytime I dial up my ISP I get a popup or balloon that says you are now connected to your ISP at XXX Kbs/secs. I would like to turn this feature off but I can't seem to find out how to. I've tried searching here and at Microsoft's site but I haven't came up with anything yet. I know it can done but I just don't know how.

Thanks

Bubba169

 

This is from Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 307729

To Disable The Notification Area Balloon Tips;

Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then press ENTER.

Navigate to the following subkey:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

Right-click the right pane, create a new DWORD value, and then name it EnableBalloonTips.

Double-click this new entry, and then give it a hexadecimal value of 0.

Quit Registry Editor. Log off Windows, and then log back on.

These steps disable all Notification Area balloon tips for this user.

There is no way to disable balloon tips for specific programs only.

HTH

 

Thanks that worked I knew there was a way but I didn't know what those balloons were called, so my searches came up empty.

Thanks

Bubba169

 

You're welcome. Thanks for posting back.