Enable Tooltips in Vista

Previously, I have written about disabling the Windows Vista balloon tooltips. Not all people want this annoying message. In case you want it back, we can enable the tooltip again.

To disable the balloon tips, below are the windows registry settings you need:

1. Click on the Windows Vista start orb

2. Type “regedit” or “regedit.exe” on the start search

3. Click on the “regedit.exe” and provide the necessary access right privileges

4. Navigate to the various keys as shown below and make sure they have the same values as the one below:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"EnableBalloonTips" = dword:00000001
"StartButtonBalloonTip" = dword:00000001
"FolderContentsInfoTip" = dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"EnableBalloonTips" = dword:00000001
"StartButtonBalloonTip" = dword:00000001
"FolderContentsInfoTip" = dword:00000001

5. Save and exit the windows registry.

Image from my own computer.