mouse display of text problems

[Guest]

I would like to know how to turn off the mouse text option. I would like the
mouse to act as just a pointer and not relay to me what the text is that I am
currently looking at. For example, when I run the mouse over this dialogue
box, it tells me to "Enter your message." In the box above it says "Enter a
subject for the post." Please tell me how to get this to turn off. It is
driving me nuts.

 

[Elmo]

I would like to know how to turn off the mouse text option. I would like the
mouse to act as just a pointer and not relay to me what the text is that I am
currently looking at. For example, when I run the mouse over this dialogue
box, it tells me to "Enter your message." In the box above it says "Enter a
subject for the post." Please tell me how to get this to turn off. It is
driving me nuts.

You can turn off some tool tips with this:

Disable balloon tips or disable all (line 11, left column)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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I would like to know how to turn off the mouse text option. I would
like the mouse to act as just a pointer and not relay to me what the
text is that I am currently looking at. For example, when I run the
mouse over this dialogue box, it tells me to "Enter your message."
In the box above it says "Enter a subject for the post." Please tell
me how to get this to turn off. It is driving me nuts.

My heavens, you have a low pain threshold

Perhaps see:
Disable Windows® XP's Balloon Tips
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_balloontips.htm
and
Disable Balloon Tips or Disable All (Row 11)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Can't say whether this will work all around, and in your web browser (where
this is happening now), but I've never tried it.

You might also want to consider using a news client, such as Forte Agent,
Thunderbird, or even Outlook Express, rather than the pretty clunky web
interface to the newsgroups. It's a lot easier to do nearly everything that
way. You can mark messages to be watched, filter the views so you can see
replies to your posts easily, and search. The Microsoft public news server
is msnews.microsoft.com and you can subscribe to as many groups as you like;
no authentication is required.