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How to disable all notification balloons in Windows

It is too annoying sometimes to see the pop-up notification balloons in the system tray.Have you ever thought of disabling them.This might be an extreme step.You may turn off this notifications in each specific offending application.If you want to disable them then go on....

1.Click on windows start and type "run" and press enter.

2.Type "regedit" and click ok.

3.A dialogue box appears asking "Do you want to allow the following program to make any changes to this computer?" .press "yes".

4.It will open Registry Editor.

5.Go to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced"

6.Create a new 32-bit DWORD and name it as "EnableBalloonTips" and give it value 0.Now logoff and you will see the changes that are made(No more notification Balloons).

That's all for today folks.If you like the post please feel free to comment and share it...........;-)

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How to skip the annoying "use the web service to find the correct program" dialog in windows 7

If we use windows many of us generally find this annoying dialog box.In this tutorial i will tell you how to temporarily disable this dialog box.Follow these simple steps to do so:

1.Click on windows start and type "run" and press enter.

2.Type "regedit" and click ok.

3.A dialogue box appears asking "Do you want to allow the following program to make any changes to this computer?" .press "yes".

4.It will open Registry Editor.

5.Go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer"

6.Create a DWORD named NoInternetOpenWith and give it a value 1.You are done with it.

7.If you want to reset back to default simply change the value to 0 or delete the DWORD.

That's it for today folks.If you find the post interesting please share it.Please feel free to comment.

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How to increase the speed of Aero Taskbar Thumbnails in windows 7

When we hover the mouse over a taskbar thumbnail it willshow the specific window.By default there is a specific delay in this process.In this tutorial i will tell you how to increase or decrease the speed of the Aero Taskbar Thumbnails.

1.Click on windows start and type "run" and press enter.

2.Type "regedit" and click ok.

3.A dialogue box appears asking "Do you want to allow the following program to make any changes to this computer?" .press "yes".

4.It will open Registry Editor.

5.Go to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced"

6.Create a new DWORD by right clicking and name it as "ExtendedUIHoverTime".

7.Give it a decimal value of 0 or 1 which is in milliseconds.To slow it down you can give any value from 400 to 1000 or any.generally nobody wants to slowdown it.

Now logoff and logon and see the change.

So that's all for today folks.If you find the post interesting please spare a minute to share it as "sharing is caring".Please feel free to comment.

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How to prevent windows update from forcibly rebooting your pc

Most of us face this problem and it is really annoying to see the Windows update restart dialogue box sometimes.In this tutorial i will tell you how to temporarily disable this.Follow these steps:

1.Click on windows start and type "run" and press enter.

2.Type "regedit" and click ok.

3.A dialogue box appears asking "Do you want to allow the following program to make any changes to this computer?" .press "yes".

4.It will open Registry Editor.

5.Goto"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU"

6.Create anew 32-bit DWORD value named "NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers" and give it a value 1.

Now you are done if you want to put things back to the way they were simply delete the 32-bit DWORD.

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How to cleanup your messy context menu

The most irritating part in windows is the unused set of applications in the context menu.Many don't even use half of them.So,today in this tutorial you will learn how to clean up your messy context menu.If you want to add any application to context menu please read  How to add any application to context menu

1.Click on windows start and type "run" and press enter.

        2.Type "regedit" and click ok.

         3.A dialogue box appears asking "Do you want to allow the following program to make any changes to this computer?" .press "yes".

4.It will open Registry Editor.The context menu items are found at two different locations and are to be handled differently.It is explained further in the post.5.Go to "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell"

6.create a new stringvalue and name it as "Extended" and you are done removing it

 7.Go to "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers". 8.Click on anything you want to remove click on (Default) and replace its value data with "--" in the front and you are done.

That's all for this post folks.If you like the post feel free to spread this post by sharing it and feel free to comment.If you have any genuine doubts you  can approach me.........

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