please help, Windows XP question

[Vampirex]

how do i get rid of the bubble that pops up in my taskbar tray everytime i connect to the internet? it also pops up with other programs also, it just tells me stuff i already know! please help

[iisbob]

I take it you're talking about the " helpful " screen tips that popup in windows telling you what a particular feature is and how to use it; in that case take a look at this-{ Make sure you back up your registry before you do any changes! }:

Microsoft Word for Windows introduced the Tip of the Day feature, which presents a helpful tip every time you start a tip-enabled application such as Win95, Office 95, and NT 4.0. You can add your own set of tips. This is a workstation option, not a useful server hack. The list of tips are stored as a set of values under:
Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer \Tips
Name: 0
Type: REG_SZ
Value: your-tip-0
Name: 1
Type: REG_SZ
Value: your-tip-1
You can replace any of the existing tips included with NT by changing that tip's value. Alternatively you can replace all of them by removing all the values under Tips and replacing them with your own. There is a pair of REG_BINARY values which control whether and which tips come next. These values are stored in HKEY_CURRENT_USER, so they can be different for every user.

Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer \Tips
Name: Show
Type: REG_BINARY
Value: 00000000 disables the tip
Value: 01000000 enables the tip


The Next subkey controls order of display.
Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer \Tips
Name: Next
Type: REG_BINARY
Value: 00000000 displays tip 0
Value: 01000000 displays tip 1
Value: ... displays tip ...
Value: 0c000000 displays tip 12



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iisbob
"Ward, come upstairs and talk to The Beaver."
-- June (Mrs. Frisky) Cleaver

[iisbob]

Suppose i should have mentioned above that w2000/XP are based on the NT kernell; that's why the above speaks of NT. I honestly don't know if this will work for XP, but most Registry " hacks " in NT are compatible with 2000, so they should work in XP. There is no major harm in fixing these particular keys, just be sure you always back up your registry should you try this.

And i would also look in your display options, or folder options to see if there is a way for you to turn off these tips from a GUI panel.

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iisbob
"Ward, come upstairs and talk to The Beaver."
-- June (Mrs. Frisky) Cleaver

[Vampirex]

thanks, but that doesnt really help me... sorry