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How to disable the macro "tip" of Visual Studio?

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

Visual Studio .NET Macros

To stop the macro, double-click the rotating cassette.
Click here to not show this ball again.

I'm having trouble clicking on a ball because my macro runs so fast.

Is this option suitable for some dialog box?

(I found someone else asking this question on some other site , but he didn’t answer there. I do justice here because I copied and pasted some parts from there.)

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This will disable the popup:

For Visual Studio 2008:

  HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ VisualStudio \ 8.0 

 DWORD DontShowMacrosBalloon = 6

For Visual Studio 2010 (by default, DWORD will not be there, use New | DWORD value to create it):

  HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ VisualStudio \ 10.0 

 DWORD DontShowMacrosBalloon = 6

Delete the same key to enable it again.

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Well, I found a way to make the ball with a mouse click, and clicking on it really does not allow it to appear again. (On another site that I referred to in the original question, the question asks what is wrong. Although it was in VS2005, and I use VS2008.)

In any case, I inserted a pause line into the macro so that it works long enough for me to click on the ball:

 System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000)

It would be nice to know if there is any dialogue somewhere to turn it on again if I have a crazy change of heart.

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