Quicklaunch Balloons

[Dave B]

When I hover over some quick Launch balloons I get whole paragraphs of
explanations. How can I turn off the 'feature'?
Thx
Dave

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Dave,

Are you referring to when hovering over the icons in the Quick Launch
toolbar?

 

[Joli Ballew]

I'm pretty sure you can turn that off with TweakXP, a free powertoy for
Windows XP.

joli

--

www.joliballew.com
www.northtexasgraphics.com

Hi Dave,

Are you referring to when hovering over the icons in the Quick Launch
toolbar?

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/

When I hover over some quick Launch balloons I get whole
paragraphs of explanations. How can I turn off the
'feature'? Thx
Dave

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

I know you meant to say TweakUI. In any case, it is on the list of Power
Toys at
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

--
Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
(Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested)

I'm pretty sure you can turn that off with TweakXP, a free powertoy for
Windows XP.

joli

--

www.joliballew.com
www.northtexasgraphics.com

Hi Dave,

Are you referring to when hovering over the icons in the Quick Launch
toolbar?

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/

When I hover over some quick Launch balloons I get whole
paragraphs of explanations. How can I turn off the
'feature'? Thx
Dave

 

[Dave B]

Yes, I was referring to the text one sees hovering over the icons in the
Quick Launch
toolbar? I have the tweak utility in my CP, looks like everybody's right -
mine is titled "TweakUIXP"
But ----------- I don't see how to do it in Tweak either.

I have a Sony CD/DVD burner. There are 4 long lines of text if one is
foolish enough to pass over the icon. Even Word and Excel are each 3.

Any further thoughts???

Thx
Dave

I know you meant to say TweakUI. In any case, it is on the list of Power
Toys at
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

--
Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
(Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested)

I'm pretty sure you can turn that off with TweakXP, a free powertoy for
Windows XP.

joli

--

www.joliballew.com
www.northtexasgraphics.com

Hi Dave,

Are you referring to when hovering over the icons in the Quick Launch
toolbar?

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/

Dave B wrote:
When I hover over some quick Launch balloons I get whole
paragraphs of explanations. How can I turn off the
'feature'? Thx
Dave

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Open TweakUI. In the left pane expand 'Taskbar and Start Menu' and you will
see four checkboxes on the right. The first one is Enable balloon tips.
Uncheck that and see if this also applies to the Quick Launch icons. You
may have to log out and in again or restart, but the tool does not say so.
This may not have the desired effect on the QL items, but this is the
setting the other posters referred to.

--
Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
(Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested)

Yes, I was referring to the text one sees hovering over the icons in the
Quick Launch
toolbar? I have the tweak utility in my CP, looks like everybody's
right - mine is titled "TweakUIXP"
But ----------- I don't see how to do it in Tweak either.

I have a Sony CD/DVD burner. There are 4 long lines of text if one is
foolish enough to pass over the icon. Even Word and Excel are each 3.

Any further thoughts???

Thx
Dave

I know you meant to say TweakUI. In any case, it is on the list of Power
Toys at
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

--
Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
(Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested)

I'm pretty sure you can turn that off with TweakXP, a free powertoy for
Windows XP.

joli

--

www.joliballew.com
www.northtexasgraphics.com
Hi Dave,

Are you referring to when hovering over the icons in the Quick Launch
toolbar?

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/

Dave B wrote:
When I hover over some quick Launch balloons I get whole
paragraphs of explanations. How can I turn off the
'feature'? Thx
Dave

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Dave,

Right click on each icon in the QL toolbar and select properties.
Look at comments on the shortcut tab and, the text to the right of the
icon at the top on the General tab and edit each to your liking.

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/

Yes, I was referring to the text one sees hovering over
the icons in the Quick Launch
toolbar? I have the tweak utility in my CP, looks like
everybody's right - mine is titled "TweakUIXP"
But ----------- I don't see how to do it in Tweak either.

I have a Sony CD/DVD burner. There are 4 long lines of
text if one is foolish enough to pass over the icon. Even Word and
Excel are each 3.
Any further thoughts???

Thx
Dave

I know you meant to say TweakUI. In any case, it is on
the list of Power Toys at
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

--
Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
(Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested)

I'm pretty sure you can turn that off with TweakXP, a
free powertoy for Windows XP.

joli

--

www.joliballew.com
www.northtexasgraphics.com
Hi Dave,

Are you referring to when hovering over the icons in
the Quick Launch toolbar?

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/

Dave B wrote:
When I hover over some quick Launch balloons I get
whole paragraphs of explanations. How can I turn off
the 'feature'? Thx
Dave

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Colin,

The icon comments in QL toolbar are not considered balloons. The
balloon setting in Tweakui will have no effect on the comments.

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/

Open TweakUI. In the left pane expand 'Taskbar and Start
Menu' and you will see four checkboxes on the right. The
first one is Enable balloon tips. Uncheck that and see if
this also applies to the Quick Launch icons. You may
have to log out and in again or restart, but the tool
does not say so. This may not have the desired effect on
the QL items, but this is the setting the other posters
referred to.

Yes, I was referring to the text one sees hovering over
the icons in the Quick Launch
toolbar? I have the tweak utility in my CP, looks like
everybody's right - mine is titled "TweakUIXP"
But ----------- I don't see how to do it in Tweak
either. I have a Sony CD/DVD burner. There are 4 long lines of
text if one is foolish enough to pass over the icon. Even Word and
Excel are each 3. Any further thoughts???

Thx
Dave

I know you meant to say TweakUI. In any case, it is on
the list of Power Toys at
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

--
Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
(Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested)
I'm pretty sure you can turn that off with TweakXP, a
free powertoy for Windows XP.

joli

--

www.joliballew.com
www.northtexasgraphics.com
Hi Dave,

Are you referring to when hovering over the icons in
the Quick Launch toolbar?

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/

Dave B wrote:
When I hover over some quick Launch balloons I get
whole paragraphs of explanations. How can I turn
off the 'feature'? Thx
Dave

 

[Dave B]

AH-HA - Now we got it
Once again thanks to all - a great help to us forcefully reformed DOS types

Dave

Hi Dave,

Right click on each icon in the QL toolbar and select properties.
Look at comments on the shortcut tab and, the text to the right of the
icon at the top on the General tab and edit each to your liking.

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/

Yes, I was referring to the text one sees hovering over
the icons in the Quick Launch
toolbar? I have the tweak utility in my CP, looks like
everybody's right - mine is titled "TweakUIXP"
But ----------- I don't see how to do it in Tweak either.

I have a Sony CD/DVD burner. There are 4 long lines of
text if one is foolish enough to pass over the icon. Even Word and Excel
are each 3.
Any further thoughts???

Thx
Dave

I know you meant to say TweakUI. In any case, it is on
the list of Power Toys at
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

--
Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
(Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested)
I'm pretty sure you can turn that off with TweakXP, a
free powertoy for Windows XP.

joli

--

www.joliballew.com
www.northtexasgraphics.com
Hi Dave,

Are you referring to when hovering over the icons in
the Quick Launch toolbar?

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/

Dave B wrote:
When I hover over some quick Launch balloons I get
whole paragraphs of explanations. How can I turn off
the 'feature'? Thx
Dave