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Does anyone know how to stop window messaging popup adds, that keep coming up every second?

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by bohicam1

In win2k and winxp, right click My Computer and choose Manage, click services, scroll down to Messenger Service and double click it. Click stop, then on the scroll box where it says enable, manual or disable, choose disable.
Good luck!

Mike

by james goerke

To Disable The Notification Area Balloon Tips
1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then press ENTER.
2. Navigate to the following subkey:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
3. Right-click theright pane, create a new DWORD value, and then name it EnableBalloonTips.
4. Double-click this new entry, and then give it a hexadecimal value of 0.
5. 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.

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