This is a simple minitweak that gets rid of annoying balloon that pops up in the taskbar (from system tray icons):

  1. Click start, open run and type in “regedit”, press enter.
  2. Now you’ll see the registry editor, in the left hand side.. expand the HKEY_CURRENT_USER option and navigate to Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Explorer > Advanced.
  3. Once you select advanced, you’ll see options in the right hand side column, right click on the right hand column (under the data column, so you don’t select any option) and click New, select DWORD and rename it to “EnableBalloonTips”
  4. Double click the option you just created and set its value to “0″
  5. Close registry editor and reboot your pc!

And You’re done! :P thank the lord.. no more balloon pop-ups (you can bring them back by setting the value of EnableBalloonTips to 1)

Good luck!