How disable automatic tooltips in Win Explorer?

[Alex Coleman]

Using XP Pro/SP1. Win Explorer set to "Show Details".

I see tooltips appear automatically when I move my *cursor* from one
file to another in Windows Explorer.

In the past I seem to recall I would see tooltips when I hovered my
mouse over a file in Win Explorer or over an icon on the desktop.

Can I disable the "cursor tooltip" and enable just the "mouse
tooltip"?

 

[Gary Woodruff]

You can of course remove any Tool Tip from an icon.

For each icon, simply right-click it and choose Properties from the menu that
appears. On the shortcut tab, change or remove the text in the box next to the
"Comment:" field and click OK.

And you can turn them off completely with a Registry entry like the instructions for
Disabling Balloon Tips here.
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/windowsxp_tips.htm#balloon_tips

But I am unaware of a way to globally make some work and others not.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

There are many balloon tips, tooltips, etc. Balloon Tips, Folder Contents
Info Tips, Explorer Pop-Ups, Show Info Tips, Start Menu and Notification
Area tooltips.

I think that you're referring to these...
Open Folder Options...
Start | Run | Type: control folders | Click OK |
View tab | UNCheck: Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items |
Click Apply | Click OK

Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items
[[Specifies that a description of a selected folder or desktop item is
displayed in a pop-up window. When you select this check box, the pop-up
description appears even if Web content is not enabled on your desktop or in
folders.]]

The above setting has no affect on the tooltips that you see in the
notification area, like your clock.

HOW TO Disable Notification Area Balloon Tips in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307729

There are eight registry keys related to balloon tips and tooltips that I
know of.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[ghosty]

This is the tip found at your link:

Disabling Balloon Tips
Added 11/9/01

To turn off balloon tips in applications that support XP Themes:

Start Regedit

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


Create a DWORD value of EnableBalloonTips

Give it a value of 0

It doesn't work. I've tried it months ago, it's still sitting in my
registry. I'm still getting popup tooltips
(http://www.geocities.com/cwghosty/mspopuphell_index.html?1109190381312),
and nothing seems to work

 

[alan-spiderman]

Anyone tried the program at
http://www.codeproject.com/tools/killtt.asp? Only solution I've seen
that has a chance or really killing *ALL* the tool tips since it
actually intercetps the TTM_ACTIVATE messages. I've investigated, but
not tried.

Really "aglassman409 [AT] ev1 [DOT] net" (Unless you're a SPAM robot,
you know what to do)