I am Dale Hayter, a Microsoft and VMware certified Technical Consultant.

My blog has been built up over the years from my experience of working on an IT helpdesk and also from being out on-site.

How to Disable Windows 8.1 Touch Tips, Switch Between Apps, Group Policy GPO

When using Windows 8.1 in a VM I find it annoying that the Windows 8.1 Touch Tips keep coming up. In a VM you cant remove them and they just get in the way. You can disable them using group policy.

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The policy you want is under

User Configuration, Policies, Administrative Templates, Windows Components, Edge UI

Then you want to enable the setting

Disable help tips

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I’ve made a quick guide.

Open up Group Policy Management Console and branch down to you find the Group policy objects folder. Right click on it and click new.

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In the box that appears enter the name of the policy you want to create.

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Right click on the new policy and click edit.

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Now branch down to the policy we need to edit.

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Double click on Disable help tips and set it to enable.

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Thats it. Apply the policy to your required user OU and job done.

If your not on a domain pc but just a standalone home machine you can make the same changes but just open gpedit.msc.