Windows Embedded Standard 7: User interface
filters
(Post 3 of 4)
This post is the third in a series of four posts that make an
article on user interface filters. In particular, we will deal with
"Turn off Pop-Up balloons"
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Turn off Pop-Up balloons
While in previous versions of Windows the display of these
Pop-Ups was driven by some registry keys, in Windows 7 (and
therefore in Windows Embedded Standard 7) the Pop-Up
Balloons have increased and how NOT to have them displayed has
started to depend on the application itself.
For those related to the discovery of new hardware (e.g. when
you insert a memory stick or more generally a device) we can act,
with administrator rights, on the registry key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DeviceInstall\Settings]
"DisableBalloonTips"=0x00000001 (REG_DWORD)
· If equal to 1, the key is enabled and the Pop-Up
Balloons will NOT appear;
· If equal to 0, the key is disabled and the Pop-Up
Balloons will appear;
In the standard situation, the key does NOT exist, so the
function is disabled.
NOTE: To create the right Registry-Key-Name we suggest to use
the Edit Group Policy as explained below.
This key can be controlled by the system program "GPEdit" (Group
Policy Editor). To enable the ability NOT to display the Pop-Up
Balloons:
• Click the Start button and in the search box, type "Edit Gr
...", the system presents a list of applications from which you can
choose "Edit Group Policy".
• Navigate the panels: Computer Configuration - Administrative
Templates - System - Device Installation;
· Click on Turn off "Found New Hardware balloons
during device inst...";
· Click on Enable and
eventually type a Comment as a
reminder;
· Click on OK and close the
Group Policy Editor.
Other types of Pop-Up Balloons, such as those related
to the availability of new system updates can be disabled by acting
on functions configured in the panel "Change Action Center
settings":
· Click the Start button and in the search box type "Action
Center" and turn it on;
· On the left column select "Change Action Center settings".
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NOTE:
This panel refers to the "Messages" of the various
functions and not to the functions themselves that are handled each
with their own settings.
If we refer to our target device as an object identified
with the application for which it was designed, the advice is that
if the taskbar (or the "explorer" shell) is not necessary for the
application, the latter is chosen directly as the "system shell"
avoiding many user and system interference with the application
itself.
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These articles, divided into post, were written, revised and
translated into English as well as by me by other two colleagues of
mine: Gianni Rosa Gallina (blog)
eMVP and Marina Sabetta.
For more information please refer to these links (in
English):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff793549(v=winembedded.60)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff794009(v=winembedded.60).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee832759.aspx
