How can I turn OFF screens tips or balloons?

[Guest]

I'm running XP Home. When my mouse pointer lands on an icon or a web-link, a
little message pops up next to the pointer to tell me the nature of the item
I'm pointing at. How can I turn these things OFF? They are highly annoying.

 

[John Thomas Smith]

I'm running XP Home. When my mouse pointer lands on an icon or a web-link, a
little message pops up next to the pointer to tell me the nature of the item
I'm pointing at. How can I turn these things OFF? They are highly annoying.

Do a search at the Microsoft article site... I think you would
enter tool tips (but I'm not 100% sure those are called tool
tips, so you many need to try some other search terms)

http://search.microsoft.com/search/search.aspx?st=b&View=en-us

John Thomas Smith
http://www.direct2usales.com
http://www.pacifier.com/~jtsmith

 

[PA Bear]

Disable Balloon Tips or Disable All (Line 11, Left)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm