If you are unsure what a notification balloon is then look at this image and I’m sure you have seen it a bunch of times before on your Vista desktop;

Disable Notification Balloons

To disable these notification balloons you need to perform a basic registry edit;

  • Navigate to this location
    • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
  • Now create a new 32-bit DWORD and name it
    • EnableBalloonTips
  • Set the value to 0
  • Reboot your computer