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Asked: 2026-05-10T20:04:52+00:00

Whenever I use a macro in Visual Studio I get an annoying tip balloon

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Whenever I use a macro in Visual Studio I get an annoying tip balloon in the system tray and an accompanying ‘pop’ sound. It says:

Visual Studio .NET macros

To stop the macro from running, double-click the spinning cassette.
Click here to not show this balloon again.

I have trouble clicking the balloon because my macro runs so quickly.

Is this controllable by some dialog box option?

(I found someone else asking this question on some other site but it’s not answered there. I give credit here because I’ve copied and pasted some pieces from there.)

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  1. This will disable the pop up:

    For Visual Studio 2008:

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0
     DWORD DontShowMacrosBalloon=6

    For Visual Studio 2010 (the DWORD won’t be there by default, use New | DWORD value to create it):

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0
     DWORD DontShowMacrosBalloon=6

    Delete the same key to re-enable it.

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