How to Get Rid of the annoying little popup "Found New Hardware" Balloon

To disable this (and other system tray balloon popups), here's what you need to do:

  1. Open your favorite registry editor.
  2. Navigate to this key:
    HKEY CURRENT USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
  3. In the Edit menu, click New, DWORD value
  4. Name the new value EnableBalloonTips
  5. Double click the new value
  6. Set a hexadecimal value data of 0
  7. Reboot your computer


 

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