Windows 7: Notifications - Enable or Disable Message Balloons

Hello ksanger,

No problem, you can right click on the downloaded REG file and click on Edit to open it Notepad to see what changes it makes and where in the registry.

Thanks , it's work for me , but i want ask something , how the notification disable? i didn't disable it did you have any idea why suddenly disable itself? already 2 times like this, and if we randomly add register (Enable_Notification.reg) like that, can damaged our OS ?

Hello sle3pingz,

I'm happy to hear that it enabled it for you again.

It's not going to hurt anything to use either REG files since all it will do is to either enable or disable balloon notifications.

Do you have any all in one tweaking type programs installed that may include the option to enable/disable balloon notifications, and may have mistakenly set it to disabled them?

i don't know , maybe some program i install, but isn't balloon notification is microsoft tools? why install other programs can disable it?

I suppose since a all-in-one tweaking type program just has a bunch of settings that allows you to be able to change them faster in one place instead of normally in Windows. Personally, I prefer to just change them myself since these type of programs usually tend to cause more issues for one reason or another.

Thanks, it helped me a lot.

You're welcome Krtislav.

Hi - I know this is an older thread, yet this entire forum has been SUCH a great help in my conversion from a lean/mean XP
to a Windows 7 that's getting closer each day because of all the tips/tweaks here - so Thank You very much!

Just wanted to add, for anyone else having these problems --
in addition to the initial procedures (I chose to set it via the Group Policy on Windows 7 Professional),
I had to go into the system tray "Customize Notifications" ,
and then select "Windows host process(Rundll32)" - Show icon and notification" ,
before the balloon would popup properly as I wanted.

Anyone that's had real data corruption due to not following the "proper-official" removal protocol,
knows how important that final visual confirmation is, to remove the paranoia.

And for any of the lucky ones who maintain .... "why, that never happens to ME!
I can remove all sorts of drives while wrestling alligators w/ my bare hands!"
[as one of my smart*ss know-it-all friends said]

..... then, I'm really really happy for you .... maybe I can take YOUR seminar some day

Is there a way to turn off the balloons JUST for printing? I'm in an office with the printer nearby and I don't really need a balloon pop up for every single document I send to the printer.

*Edit* nevermind I think I got it:

Then untick the boxes to show informational notifications, either for local or network printers (network in my case). This is a system-wide setting that will affect all printers installed on your machine.

Thank you for the instructions and download to reset my notifications. IT WORKED! (No New Emails is on the taskbar now!)