How to Enable Balloon Notification in Windows 8

Introduction

As we know, Windows 8 is constructed with many user friendly features and characteristics. Moreover Windows 8 provides us many features and many notifications appearing on the Windows 8 screen. These notifications help to easily access any folder. Hence sometimes it is necessary to enable these notifications. However we have many ways to do that. We will use the Registry Editor to to do this.

So in this article we will learn how to enable Balloon notification completely with the help of the Registry Editor.

How to enable the Balloon notification

Step 1

First of all we have to move to the Start screen window of Windows 8. 

Step 2

Then move the cursor on the bottom-right of the window screen and click the search box which is helpful to search in Windows 8.

Step 3

Then in the search box type "regedit" and click on the Apps from the right sidebar then click regedit in the main window.

Step 4

Then you will see a new window named "User Account Control" Window. Just click on the Yes button.

The second way is just hit Windows logo key + R on your keypad and just type "regedit" and click on the OK button.

Step 5

Then a new window will be shown on your screen labeled as Registry Editor as shown in the following image.

Step 6

Now in the Registry Editor just use the following path:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER >> Software >> Microsoft >> Windows >> CurrentVersion >> Advanced

Step 7

Now we have to create a registry file so just use the following steps as shown in the figure. Then select the name for this registry; for example in this we use BallonNotification.

NOTE - For a 32-bit system select "Dword (32-bit) Value" and for 64-bit system select "Qword (64-bit) Value".

Step 8

After that just right-click on the newly created file and click on the Modify tab in the dropdown menu.

Step 9

Finally a new window will be shown on your screen as shown in the following image.

NOTE - In this window if the value is 0 (Disable) then modify to 1 (enable) and click on the Ok button and restart your system.