How to disable those ms yellow box popups

[Guest]

Are those things a conspiracy to lessen the productivity of those of us with
ADD? I can't believe that ms would so firmly enmesh this feature that it
cannot be disabled. There are aided optional features for the visual or
hearing impaired. Why is there a mandatory obstacle for ADD?

Anywhere you rest the cursor another one pops up, causing you to look away
from what you are doing and pay attention to it. Its not even as if its
something urgent-all it does it identify what is already identified (cursor
rests on the distinctive spider-on-card logo of spider solitaire, sittin in
the taskbar. Up pops the yellow box "spider"), or NAG! Even as I write
this, I inadvertantly left the cursor in this box. "Enter message" it nags,
even as I am typing and entering the message! It obscures a good chunk of
the screen in wmp, filling it with information that I didn't ask for. This
has gotten so distracting that I have 2 cds I am supposed to make, but
haven't. If there is no way to kill the beast I am going to have to look for
another media player. Yet another waste of time!

So far no one anywhere, on any website, has ventured a solution. The
closest I've seen has been a reg fix to disable tips balloons. I have
unchecked the "show popup folder descriptions" & applied it to all folders,
but this doesn't work. I tried Dave's reg fix, but that doesn't work.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Disable balloon tips -see Line 11 at -- : http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

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

 

[Guest]

I'm sorry, maybe these are balloons on steriods, or maybe they are called
something different. I just went to the registry to do the fix suggested in
the microsoft link, only to find I had already done it with no effect.
I then did the "disable all", restarted, went to windows media player, and
there it was, popping up unwanted information wherever the cursor hit near
music. I just moved the cursor into this box, and up popped another, nagging
me to "enter your message".

Are these tooltips? Are they coded into Explorer? I looked at the
processes in AdAware SE pro, and there were tooltips running for every
program, and they all ran off Explorer.

I am really discouraged and frustrated, spent a week and a half reading,
trying reg tweaks, tweakui, unchecking boxes, restarting, causing then
repairing problems. I nearly disabled sounds!

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

You can not change the default GUI interface for creating music CD's with any setting or option.

If that tool does not work the way you want, you might consider finding another way. Avoid the mouse, and use the Tab, and Ctrl-tab
keystrokes that navigate, acquire new software that does it the way you like, or use scripting to add to the file Properties from
the command line, (and other ways I'm not familiar with) This built-in burning software was not really designed to do the advanced
creative work you do.

Others here might know some good apps to recommend. I'm afraid my knowledge of music editors stopped years ago with "Cakewalk" ; )


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[Guest]

I think maybe I didn't make myself clear. I have no problems with windows
media player. It has worked well. However, even though the popups may lead
me to look for another player, they popup in other applications, too. The
problem is with the yellow popup boxes that obscure the page popping up
redundant, unasked for information.

A picture is worth a thousand words though. I set up a geocities page so
anyone could see what I am talking about:
http://www.geocities.com/cwghosty/mspopuphell.html

I have a screencapture of the nasty buggers at work in wmp, as well as their
bedevilment at this site!