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SP2 - Print Balloon Notification - can't disable

I have tried all suggestions from other posts or articles online and I can't get the Windows XP SP2 print balloon notifications to go away.  We have a Win2k Domain (native mode).  Please help!

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Hello djs120 =)

Two ways to disable this, from Start>Printers and Faxes>File Menu>Server Properties>Advanced section> and untick "Show informational notifications for network printers"
Second is, to Create a new DWORD value in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers\Settings called EnableBalloonNotificationsRemote and set its value to 0(means Disabled)

Ref >> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=831582
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I'd already tried the "show informational notifications for network printers" that's been off for some time now.

I just tried the registry hack and that had no affect either.  Of course I did this on the client thinking it's an XP problem because we don't receive the balloon notifications on the Win2k clients.  Should I add that DWORD to the server (Win2k server)?

Areu restarting or logging off and loggin on back after making registry changes ??
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restarting completely (start -> shutdown -> reboot)
there must be two registry keys in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers\Settings
one is EnableBalloonNotificationsRemote and other is EnableBalloonNotificationsLocal
what are the value datas for them ??
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neither the server, Windows 2000, nor my client, Windows XP-SP2, had either keys.  I started by adding the EnableBalloonNotificationsRemote on my client - my fault the "remote" didn't click with me.  I then changed that key to from remote to local, rebooted and still no luck.

I've added the EnableBalloonNotificationsRemote to the server but I can't reboot that in the middle of the day.  It'll have to wait until this weekend or early monday morning.
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Oops, my bad.  I had one "o" in balloon.  Fixed the typo rebooted and no balloon popup.

lol.... Excellent ^_^
I tried the other suggestion of: Start>Printers and Faxes>File Menu>Server Properties>Advanced section> and untick "Show informational notifications for network printers." THANKS, WORKED GREAT!!! One note, I had to give the user admin rights on the terminal server temporarily to make the change.