I gave bad advice and now I need some

[GK]

A nice person asked how to disable tool-tips, which I always understood
to be the square balloon things that pop up when you draw your cursor over
icons. I told her to edit this key in the registry value from (1) to (0):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

I learned this elsewhere and see that it is a well publicized answer, but she
said it didn't work, so I followed the same procedure to check, rebooted,
and discovered she was right. It didn't disable the square, balloon, tip things.
Am I (we) missing something here?

I appreciate your help in advance.

 

[dev]

GK said:

A nice person asked how to disable tool-tips, which I always understood
to be the square balloon things that pop up when you draw your cursor over
icons. I told her to edit this key in the registry value from (1) to (0):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

I learned this elsewhere and see that it is a well publicized answer, but she
said it didn't work, so I followed the same procedure to check, rebooted,
and discovered she was right. It didn't disable the square, balloon, tip things.
Am I (we) missing something here?

You looked at Kelly's site, linked below, under "T". Lots of TT
suggestions there.

 

[GK]

GK said:




You looked at Kelly's site, linked below, under "T". Lots of TT
suggestions there.

Thanks. Yes, there are a few, but I wonder which one applies to my description
in my original post. I would like to know that if anyone knows.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

I don't think you were in the correct key, or that you drilled
down quite far enough. I believe the full path should be:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
Advanced\Folder\ShowInfoTip

Bruce Chambers

--
Help us help you:



You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. -- RAH

 

[Howard]

A nice person asked how to disable tool-tips, which I always understood
to be the square balloon things that pop up when you draw your cursor over
icons. I told her to edit this key in the registry value from (1) to (0):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

I learned this elsewhere and see that it is a well publicized answer, but she
said it didn't work, so I followed the same procedure to check, rebooted,
and discovered she was right. It didn't disable the square, balloon, tip things.
Am I (we) missing something here?

I appreciate your help in advance.

This will disable Balloon tips:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000000

Looks like you forgot to add EnableBalloonTips before you set it to (0).

Howard

 

[GK]

Greetings --

I don't think you were in the correct key, or that you drilled
down quite far enough. I believe the full path should be:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
Advanced\Folder\ShowInfoTip

Bruce Chambers

--
Help us help you:



You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. -- RAH

A nice person asked how to disable tool-tips, which I always
understood

to be the square balloon things that pop up when you draw your

cursor over

icons. I told her to edit this key in the registry value from (1) to
(0):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\A
dvanced

I learned this elsewhere and see that it is a well publicized

answer, but she

said it didn't work, so I followed the same procedure to check,
rebooted,

and discovered she was right. It didn't disable the square, balloon,

tip things.

Am I (we) missing something here?

I appreciate your help in advance.

Hi Bruce,

No, there's key like that in my registry. BTW, I recommend bottom posting.

Thanks,

 

[GK]

A nice person asked how to disable tool-tips, which I always understood
to be the square balloon things that pop up when you draw your cursor over
icons. I told her to edit this key in the registry value from (1) to (0):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

I learned this elsewhere and see that it is a well publicized answer, but she
said it didn't work, so I followed the same procedure to check, rebooted,
and discovered she was right. It didn't disable the square, balloon, tip things.
Am I (we) missing something here?

I appreciate your help in advance.

This will disable Balloon tips:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000000

Looks like you forgot to add EnableBalloonTips before you set it to (0).

Howard

Hi Howard,

No, I created that value too, rebooted, noticed no change. I can't figure out
what those keys do, or maybe I'm not doing something right, but there really
isn't much to it.

 

[Howard]

A nice person asked how to disable tool-tips, which I always understood
to be the square balloon things that pop up when you draw your cursor over
icons. I told her to edit this key in the registry value from (1) to (0):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

I learned this elsewhere and see that it is a well publicized answer, but she
said it didn't work, so I followed the same procedure to check, rebooted,
and discovered she was right. It didn't disable the square, balloon, tip things.
Am I (we) missing something here?

I appreciate your help in advance.

This will disable Balloon tips:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000000

Looks like you forgot to add EnableBalloonTips before you set it to (0).

Howard

Hi Howard,

No, I created that value too, rebooted, noticed no change. I can't figure out
what those keys do, or maybe I'm not doing something right, but there really
isn't much to it.

I don't know why it won't work, I've done it on every install of XP and
it's worked every time. EnapbleBalloonTips should be all one word. But
you're right there isn't much to it.

My reply included the contents of my .reg file. You could copy the it to
Notepad and create a .reg file and merge it and see what happens.

Howard

 

[GK]

Howard wrote:

On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 18:08:59 -0600, GK wrote:



A nice person asked how to disable tool-tips, which I always understood
to be the square balloon things that pop up when you draw your cursor over
icons. I told her to edit this key in the registry value from (1) to (0):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

I learned this elsewhere and see that it is a well publicized answer, but she
said it didn't work, so I followed the same procedure to check, rebooted,
and discovered she was right. It didn't disable the square, balloon, tip things.
Am I (we) missing something here?

I appreciate your help in advance.


This will disable Balloon tips:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000000

Looks like you forgot to add EnableBalloonTips before you set it to (0).

Howard

Hi Howard,

No, I created that value too, rebooted, noticed no change. I can't figure out
what those keys do, or maybe I'm not doing something right, but there really
isn't much to it.

I don't know why it won't work, I've done it on every install of XP and
it's worked every time. EnapbleBalloonTips should be all one word. But
you're right there isn't much to it.

My reply included the contents of my .reg file. You could copy the it to
Notepad and create a .reg file and merge it and see what happens.

Howard

I'll try it again and le you know, thanks.

 

[GK]

Howard wrote:


On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 18:08:59 -0600, GK wrote:



A nice person asked how to disable tool-tips, which I always
understood
to be the square balloon things that pop up when you draw your
cursor over
icons. I told her to edit this key in the registry value from (1)
to (0):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced


I learned this elsewhere and see that it is a well publicized
answer, but she
said it didn't work, so I followed the same procedure to check,
rebooted,
and discovered she was right. It didn't disable the square,
balloon, tip things.
Am I (we) missing something here?

I appreciate your help in advance.



This will disable Balloon tips:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]

"EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000000

Looks like you forgot to add EnableBalloonTips before you set it to
(0).

Howard


Hi Howard,

No, I created that value too, rebooted, noticed no change. I can't
figure out
what those keys do, or maybe I'm not doing something right, but there
really
isn't much to it.

I don't know why it won't work, I've done it on every install of XP and
it's worked every time. EnapbleBalloonTips should be all one word. But
you're right there isn't much to it.
My reply included the contents of my .reg file. You could copy the it to
Notepad and create a .reg file and merge it and see what happens.

Howard

I'll try it again and le you know, thanks.

Okay, it works now. Maybe I "misspelled balloon" or something. But, I'm still
not clear what differences there are between tool tips and balloon tips. I had
the both set to (0) when I experimented. However, I noticed that the boxes along
the taskbar were still enabled. perhaps these balloon/tip values, only apply
to icons on the desktop and not the taskbar.