App Won't Show Balloon Tip Notifications in Windows 10
So it turns out I fell for one of the oldest tricks in the book. I needed to do a full reboot after altering one the registry keys.
So, for me, making Balloon Tips appear in Windows 10 needed the following:
Open regedit.exe
Navigate to
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Set (or add)
EnableBalloonTips
(as REG_DWORD) and set value to1
Reboot.
Voilà. Problem solved.
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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David Mancini almost 2 years
I am writing a VB.NET application in VS2017, to run on Windows 10. I want the main (and only) Form to minimize down to a System Tray icon. That part I have working fine. The next part, display a Balloon Tip popup notification (e.g., "Application is still running"), is not working at all.
I have already checked/noted the following:
- The
NotifyIcon
object has an icon assigned to it in the designer grid as well as in the vb.net code-behind for the form, as does its associatedBalloonTipIcon
member/property - The Group Policy on the the machine does not appear to forbid the use of Balloon Tips
- Balloon tips do not appear to be disabled in the registry
- The program works as expected in Windows 8.1 Pro and displays the BalloonTip, but does not in Windows 10 Enterprise N 2016 LTSB.
The machine is located in a domain that does have Group Policy administration going on, however the resultant policy set found on my machine does not seem to indicate that balloon tips have been disabled.
Copying-and-pasting exact code from StackOverflow does not work. The problem must then be in the system itself.
This is the code (which works on W8.1 but not W10):
Private Sub frmMain_Resize(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Me.Resize Try If Me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized Then NotifyIcon1.Visible = True NotifyIcon1.Icon = SystemIcons.Application NotifyIcon1.BalloonTipIcon = ToolTipIcon.Info NotifyIcon1.BalloonTipTitle = "App Title" NotifyIcon1.BalloonTipText = "The App is still open!" NotifyIcon1.ShowBalloonTip(50000) ShowInTaskbar = False End If Catch ex As Exception ErrorHandler(ex) End Try End Sub
Where else can I look?
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David Mancini almost 6 yearsBefore downvoting please note that the issue IS NOT a coding issue, it is a SYSTEM issue, Thank you.
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robinCTS almost 6 yearsActually, the issue is that cross-posting is not allowed. See Is cross-posting a question on multiple Stack Exchange sites permitted if the question is on-topic for each site?. You'd better quickly decide whether to delete this question or the other one. Otherwise, the community will decide for you ;-)
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