Disable Balloon Tips in the Notification Area

• How to Disable Balloon Tips in the Notification area:

Follow the given steps to disable balloon tips in windows

First Click Start Button > Click Run.

Go to Run box and type regedit hit Enter Key

Then locate the following key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

In the right side pane, create a new DWORD value,

and then name it EnableBalloonTips

Double click EnableBalloonTips, and Set it a decimal value of 0

Close the Registry Editor.

Restart your computer before the changes that you make affect.

In case you want to turn On Balloon Tips set it to the value 1

Hint :    Disable Balloon Tips value “0”

            Enable Balloon Tips value “1”

You have no idea how to fix this problem automatically please download Microsoft fix it tools.

> Download Microsoft fix tool

• Another easy method to disable balloon tips:

Well the good news is there is another easy way to disable balloon tips.

First Click on Start Button > Run

Type "gpedit.msc" without quotes

This will open the 'Group Policy' window

Now navigate to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar

On the right side pane find “Remove balloon tips on Start Menu Items” and double click on it

The pop-up window appears Click on 'Enabled'

Click OK Button.

In case you want to change it back, follow the same steps and click on 'Not Configured'

That's all.

CAUTION! : It is recommends that before you attempt to use the registry editor, make sure that you back up the whole registry or export the registry keys in the registry that you plan to edit. Incorrectly editing the registry may damage your system. Use Registry Editor at your own risk, we cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. How to Import and Export Windows Registry

Category: Registry Tweaks

Operating System : Windows

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Play Pac-Man Game on Google Homepage

• You can play pacman game in google search engine. 

Google recently introduced a fun feature on their search engine home page to celebrate the 30^th Anniversary of Pacman with a playable doodle on its home page. This doodle featured actual Pac-Man game that any user could play online.

Want to play pacman game in google

copy and paste this URL into your browser 

www.google.com/pacman

• Play Pacman game offline:

You can also play pacman game offline too without Internet access all the time. So you want to download the pacman game and play it even offline.

To play pacman game offline, you can download the source and run the game from your browser anytime.

Download Google Pacman game for offline play

Copy and paste this URL into your browser

https://github.com/macek/google_pacman/tree/884d4e1ac8fcd84c65eec28cdf35dd874283e85a

Click on the “Download” button

You can choose download source, TAR or ZIP.

After downloading unzip it to a folder of your choice

Once unzipped, you’ll see some files and a folder labeled source.

Double click on the index.html file.

Enjoy this cool pacman game.

Category: Easter Eggs

Requirements : Supported Browser

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How to Clear / Remove Windows Run History

How to Clear / Remove Windows Run History

To remove the recently typed entries in RUN dialog box follow the steps given below

Delete Individual Entries from Run Command History

First Click Start Button >  Click Run.

In the Run box, type regedit and then click OK

Then locate the following key in the registry

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU

Click on any registry entry on the right side of the Registry Editor.

Right click the entry and Select "Delete" option.

That's all.

Delete multiple Entries from Run Command History

You can also delete multiple entries at one time or Completely Clear the Recent Run command Entries

First Click Start Button >  and then click Run.

In the Run box, type regedit and then click OK

Then locate the following key in the registry

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU

Click on any registry entry on the right side of the Registry Editor

Hold the Ctrl Key then select entries one by one after selecting entries Right click and Select "Delete" option. 

Close the Registry Editor, and restart your computer before the changes that you make affect.

That's all.

CAUTION! : It is recommends that before you attempt to use the registry editor, make sure that you back up the whole registry or export the registry keys in the registry that you plan to edit. Incorrectly editing the registry may damage your system. Use Registry Editor at your own risk, we cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. How to Import and Export Windows Registry

Category: Registry Tweaks

Operating System : Windows

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Speed up Start Menu in Windows XP

Speed up the Start Menu:

Method 1 :

The default Start Menu speed is very slow, you can change the registry to get better overall performance.

Follow the given steps to change the speed of Start Menu.

First Click Start Button >  Click Run.

Go to Run box and type regedit hit Enter Key.

Then locate the following key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\MenuShowDelay

 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\MenuShowDelay

Select the MenuShowDelay the default value for "MenuShowDelay=400"

Double click the MenuShowDelay Change it to a lower value, such as 0,  

Set it to the value data from 400 to 0.

Close the Registry Editor, and restart your computer before the changes that you make affect.
That's all.

Method 2 :

You could also try this method to speed up the Start Menu performance.

Click Start Button > Settings > Control Panel

 

Click Display Properties then Switch to the “Appearance” tab then click Effects 

 

Uncheck the “Use the following transition effect for menus and tool tip” check box and Uncheck “Show shadows under menus” check box.

That's all.

CAUTION! : It is recommends that before you attempt to use the registry editor, make sure that you back up the whole registry or export the registry keys in the registry that you plan to edit. Incorrectly editing the registry may damage your system. Use Registry Editor at your own risk, we cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. How to Import and Export Windows Registry

Category: Registry Tweaks

Operating System : Windows

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Firefox - ASCII Art Kitchen Sink

Firefox - ASCII Art Kitchen Sink

Open Firefox Browser > Go to address bar 

Type: about kitchensink (without the quote but with a space) and hit enter….

It displays an ASCII art animated kitchen sink

You can also copy and paste this URL into your browser to view this animated kitchen sink

http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/samples/kitchensink.xml

Don’t forget you can first connect to the internet after try this trick

Category: Easter Eggs

Requirements : Firefox 2 and higher

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Disable/Remove Windows Messenger from windows

How to Disable/Remove/Uninstall Windows Messenger
If you don’t like Windows Messenger, you can disable/remove Windows messenger completely with the following methods.

Easily Disable Windows Messenger:
First Go to: C:/Program Files

Then find Messenger folder

Rename the Messenger folder to "MessengerOFF".

You will then see a screen appear saying "Renaming moving or deleting ‘Messenger’ could make some programs not work. Are you sure you want to do this? > Click OK Button.

That's all.

Completely Remove Windows Messenger:

Method 1:

Click on Start Button > Settings > Control Panel > 

Add or Remove Programs 

And chose Add / Remove Windows components > 

A Windows components Wizard appear Scroll components window then uncheck Windows Messenger checkbox 

Click Next Button >  If the process completed successfully click finish button.

That's all.

Method 2:
Click on Start Button > Run

In the Run dialogue box type or Copy and paste the following command into run box

RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

or

Rundll32 setupapi,InstallHinfSection BLC.Remove 128%SystemRoot%\INF\msmsgs.inf

OR

Click OK Button....

That's all.

CAUTION! : These tips and tricks are advanced, we can not guarantee that you will be able to solve your problem that result from using tips and tricks incorrectly and is used at your own risk.

Category: Tips & Tricks

Operating System : Windows

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