I feel your pain...
Try this, it will disable all pop-up balloons, but I find that the lesser of two evils.
(taken from Microsof Support)
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 the right 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.
Also, boxes need replacing more often than monitors, so you get even more cost savings later on
You have a very valid point there. Working in a school, I can tell you there are TONS of old monitors sitting, just gathering dust. Usually the monitor far outlives the CPU, they might just be SVGAs, but I believe is more than enough for simple aplications, and if $$ is short, those are A LOT better than nothing!
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I feel your pain... Try this, it will disable all pop-up balloons, but I find that the lesser of two evils.
(taken from Microsof Support)
1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then press ENTER.
2. Navigate to the following subkey: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
3. Right-click the right pane, create a new DWORD value, and then name it EnableBalloonTips.
4. Double-click this new entry, and then give it a hexadecimal value of 0.
5. Quit Registry Editor. Log off Windows, and then log back on.
These steps disable all Notification Area balloon tips for this user. There is no way to disable balloon tips for specific programs only.
Also, boxes need replacing more often than monitors, so you get even more cost savings later on
You have a very valid point there. Working in a school, I can tell you there are TONS of old monitors sitting, just gathering dust. Usually the monitor far outlives the CPU, they might just be SVGAs, but I believe is more than enough for simple aplications, and if $$ is short, those are A LOT better than nothing!
There is an (old) article just about that (think 40K rapors instead of a T-Rex... heheh nice analogy) on LinuxPlanet.