I gave bad advice and now I need some

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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.
 
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?
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You looked at Kelly's site, linked below, under "T". Lots of TT
suggestions there.
 
dev said:
GK said:




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

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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\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.
Click to expand...

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
 
Bruce said:
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
Click to expand...

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
Click to expand...

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,
Click to expand...

tip things.
Am I (we) missing something here?

I appreciate your help in advance.
Click to expand...
Hi Bruce,

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

Thanks,
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Howard 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?

I appreciate your help in advance.
Click to expand...


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
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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 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?

I appreciate your help in advance.
Click to expand...


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
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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.
Click to expand...

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
 
Howard said:
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
Click to expand...

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.
Click to expand...


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
Click to expand...

I'll try it again and le you know, thanks.
 
GK said:
Howard said:
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.
Click to expand...



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
Click to expand...


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