Policy

Turn off feature advertisement balloon notifications

Microsoft Windows

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Turn off feature advertisement balloon notifications
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

User
Category
Start Menu and Taskbar
Supported on
At least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016

This policy setting allows you to turn off feature advertisement balloon notifications. If you enable this policy setting, certain notification balloons that are marked as feature advertisements are not shown. If you disable do not configure this policy setting, feature advertisement balloons are shown.

Internal name
NoBalloonFeatureAdvertisements
Policy ID
d09b88287028
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
User
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
Value name
NoBalloonFeatureAdvertisements
REG_DWORD
HKCU
1
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
Value name
NoBalloonFeatureAdvertisements
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

This policy has no additional user input fields.