nVidia Forceware 91.31 SLi-Balloon FIX

[TokyoKiller]

Here, I have two fixes for this, you choose which one you like to use, I had to do a bit of research on this until I found the right registry values for it.

nVidia FIX (From nVidia's tech-site, it removes the balloon but the tray icon seems to come back with this one everytime you restart)

removesliballoon.zip

MY FIX (This one I made, it removes the balloon and the tray icon from starting up again and again if you choose not to have it, USE IT AT YOUR OWN WILL! I WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES!)

removeballoonandtray.zip

AFTER ADDING THE PATCH, GO TO THE NVIDIA CP AND DISABLE THE TRAY ICON FROM THERE TOO ON START-UP!

Restart now!

Edited June 28, 2006 by TheGriffin

[SnowRanger13]

Thanks. Its not that annyoing. Not as anyoing when older windows would mess up and you'd get

Start <--- (i forget the message it would say here on the start bar but it annoyed me when it happend :p)

[TokyoKiller]

Thanks. Its not that annyoing. Not as anyoing when older windows would mess up and you'd get

Start <--- (i forget the message it would say here on the start bar but it annoyed me when it happend :p)

Haha, wasn't it along the lines of "Click here to Start"?

[L3thal Veteran]

Thanks for the reg fix (Y)

[TokyoKiller]

Thanks for the reg fix (Y)

:yes: :)

[Trong]

Nice... Thank you.

[ObiWanToby]

Thanks a lot!

[ambiance]

I thought it was a driver installation problem so I uninstalled and re-installed. Checked the Nvidia website and had a fix for the sli popup, but nothing for the tray icon. Nvidia taking notes from Quicktime to make sure I don't forget what software/hardware is on my computer? I bought it now shut up already.

PS - Thanks I will take the risk.

[FreqFace]

I don't mean to sound stupid, but I do I make this work? I opened the .zip, but it's just a file with no extension, and if I add .reg to the end it doesn't work. Could someone just tell me that registry key that needs changing?

[Mike E]

Thank you!

[TokyoKiller]

I don't mean to sound stupid, but I do I make this work? I opened the .zip, but it's just a file with no extension, and if I add .reg to the end it doesn't work. Could someone just tell me that registry key that needs changing?

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak\]
"NvCplEnableMultiGPUConfigurationPage"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\MediaCenterTray]
"NvCplDisableBalloonNotifications"=dword:00000001

[zeroday]

Uninstalling Nvidia drivers, using Driver Cleaner and then reinstalling Nvidia drivers does the trick for the popup balloon. I didn't know about this thread or I would've used your fix. :)

[Yochanan]

The tweak is unnecesary. It pops up 3 times, and the reg entry disappears and it no longer pops up just like the Start Menu and Windows Tour balloons on a clean install of XP.

[hajj_3]

yochanan, your wrong, ive restarted about 10 times and it still appears.

[Yochanan]

Well, I don't know then. That's what it did on my system. Maybe you have to click the close button on the balloon 3 times, that's what I did.

[jamend]

91.33 should fix it too.

[jerzdawg]

91.33 should fix it too.

are these released yet?

[Yochanan]

They're beta: http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_download...2bit_91.33.html

[DirtyLarry Veteran]

I had not restarted my computer since I installed the 91.31 drivers, and I just restarted it before, and I got the SLI balloon in my tray and immedaitely thought they were screwed drivers. Luckily I came here before I uninstalled, and saw it is just a bug. Not only that, but there is a fix. (Y) Nice.