diff --git a/DistFiles/Language Explorer/Configuration/Main.xml b/DistFiles/Language Explorer/Configuration/Main.xml
index 8966aa6986..99b6ae229f 100644
--- a/DistFiles/Language Explorer/Configuration/Main.xml	
+++ b/DistFiles/Language Explorer/Configuration/Main.xml	
@@ -603,8 +603,6 @@
 			<item command="CmdNewWindow"/>
 		</menu>
 		<menu id="Help" label="_Help">
-			<!--  <item label="Show Help Balloons" boolProperty="ShowBalloonHelp" />
-			<separator />-->
 			<item command="CmdHelpLanguageExplorer"/>
 			<item command="CmdHelpTraining"/>
 			<item command="CmdHelpDemoMovies"/>
@@ -969,9 +967,8 @@ I (RandyR) brought them into this file, just to keep track of them for the time
 
 		<property name="InitialArea" value="lexicon" settingsGroup="local"/>
 		<property name="DoLog" bool="true" persist="false"/>
-		<!-- ShowBalloonHelp and ShowMorphBundles are no longer supported in GUI, but still in the code.
+		<!-- ShowMorphBundles is no longer supported in GUI, but still in the code.
 		So, add a default value here in order to prevent it from persisting -->
-		<property name="ShowBalloonHelp" bool="false" persist="false"/>
 		<property name="ShowMorphBundles" bool="true" persist="false" settingsGroup="local"/>
 		<!-- Default splitter values -->
 		<!--		<property name="PartsOfSpeech.editBasic.DataTree-Splitter" intValue="200"/>
diff --git a/Src/xWorks/FwXWindow.cs b/Src/xWorks/FwXWindow.cs
index c9546da282..4d091b490e 100644
--- a/Src/xWorks/FwXWindow.cs
+++ b/Src/xWorks/FwXWindow.cs
@@ -1020,16 +1020,7 @@ public bool OnChooseLangProject(object command)
 		{
 			CheckDisposed();
 
-			//there appears to be a problem with the DotNetBar balloon help which causes
-			//it to crash when the user hovers over something that should have a balloon but that window
-			//is behind a modeless dialog.
-			var balloonActive = m_propertyTable.GetBoolProperty("ShowBalloonHelp", false);
-			m_propertyTable.SetProperty("ShowBalloonHelp", false, true);
-
 			m_delegate.FileOpen(this);
-
-			m_propertyTable.SetProperty("ShowBalloonHelp", balloonActive, true);
-
 			return true;
 		}