How to turn off printing notification dialog/bubble in Windows XP
That little bubble that pops up from my system tray to tell me “the document was sent to the printer” was really annoying me.
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Here’s what I searched for:
- “the document was sent to the printer” turn off
Here’s the answer:
1. Click Start, and then click Printers and Faxes.
2. On the File menu, click Server Properties.
3. On the Advanced click the options you want to apply:
• Show informational notifications for local printers. This option notifies users when a job is printed on a printer that is attached to this computer.
• Show informational notifications for network printers. This option notifies users of this computer when a job is printed on a remote computer.
I found this answer here, and there is also more information there for other types of printer setups.
Update:
I also found these registry changes for Windows XP on this Troubleshooting Windows XP Site which you may want to try if the above advice isn’t working:
This one is for balloon tips disable:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] "EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000000
And this one is for disabling all balloon tips?
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] "EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] "FolderContentsInfoTip"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\tips] "Show"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] "StartButtonBalloonTip"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] "ShowInfoTip"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoSMBalloonTip"=dword:00000000
THANK YOU. Damn that was so annoying.
Very good page and information presented. I used the instructions I found to turn printing notofication off for one of my end-users. I had seen that setting so many times before but today for some reason as I was looking around on the desktop through control panel >> printers and other places, including the server, I could not find the setting. This answermysearches.com page got right to the point with the answer and I was able to take care of the printing notification balloon on the desktop and the server. I haven’t tried the reg modifications yet but I’m glad they were shown too in case I need them another time same issue.
Thank you,
John West
John,
I’m glad I could help.
It was perfect. I know if I have gone to Microsoft’s site and ran a search, although their results are pretty good I would have to rummage around through the search results for a while to find the answer I needed.
I going to give answermysearch.com another try directly next time. This time I landed here from search results. Thank again. John.
Thanks for having an easy to follow solution. How am I going to repay you?? [CENSORED!]
) Have a good one.
Glad I could help, You Scratch, I scratch. I had to edit your comment as that kind of talk can get one banned from the program I hear
Thank you, very helpful!
thank you jesus allah yaweh and buddha for the internet. That was driving me absolutely nuts! And windows help? fuggeddaboutit…
Is this a global setting for all users on the pc or just for the user that was logged in when it was turned off. If it is not global, is there a way to do it globally?
Danielle, why do you think it’s not global? Did it only turn off for one user? If so I’m not sure of a different way to do it.
Thanks a bunch, that was such an easy fix for something so irritating. Glad you were here to help.
Wow! This helped so much – that bubble notification has driven me crazy ever since our IT put XP on my computer. Thank you!!!!!!
Thanks much Greg. I had it turned off, but had to reimage the HD, so lost the original setting. Much appreciated!