Remove tooltip from Windows Explorer view?

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Is there a way to remove the tooltips from popping up in the Windows Explorer
view?

Any help is appreciated.
 
To adjust tooltips or balloon tips,go to:
http:/support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307729&sd=tech
 
I did as you advised, but I still get the blasted Balloon Tips showing up
everywhere. I have Windows XP Professional SP3 installed.
 
I did as you advised, but I still get the blasted Balloon Tips showing up
everywhere. I have Windows XP Professional SP3 installed.
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I am pretty sure the suggestion from Ramesh works well for Windows
Explorer, but your problem happens all over the place.

Can you define "all over the place"? Does the suggestion not work for
Windows Explorer?

There is more than one kind of "tip", so we need to know what tip is
bothering you.

Jose
 
Old said:
I did as you advised, but I still get the blasted Balloon Tips
showing up everywhere. I have Windows XP Professional SP3 installed.
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Are you referring to the tooltips that appear if you place
your pointer on a file or folder?

Example:
http://www.seriema.net/thumbview/images/info tip.gif

To disable tooltips... open any folder and go to...Tools /
Folder options / View tab...and uncheck..."Show pop-up
description for folder and desktop items" / Apply / OK...

--

J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
It's what I was looking for too. If I change my mind later and want the
ballon tips back, is there a reverse proceedure? TIA,
--
RobF
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| Try this script here on line 18:
|
| http://www.paulsxp.com/tweaksxp.html
|
| This script will disable All balloon Tips.
|
| --
| Windows XP and Vista Tweaks
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| www.paulsxp.com
| ------------------------------------------------------------
| Windows XP and Vista Help Forum
| ------------------------------------------------------------
| www.paulsxp.com/forum
| ------------------------------------------------------------
| Live Computer Help and Chat
| ------------------------------------------------------------
| www.paulsxp.com/livesupport.html
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|
| | > I did as you advised, but I still get the blasted Balloon Tips showing
up
| > everywhere. I have Windows XP Professional SP3 installed.
| >
| >
| >
| > "Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:
| >
| >> You're welcome!
| >>
| >> --
| >> Ramesh, MS-MVP
| >> Windows Shell/User
| >>
| >> Windows XP Troubleshooting
| >> http://www.winhelponline.com
| >>
| >> Windows XP Newsgroup Setup Instructions for Outlook Express:
| >> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroupsetup.mspx
| >>
| >> | >> > Thank you Ramesh, problem solved.
| >> >
| >> > "Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:
| >> >
| >> >> Open Control Panel, Folder Options applet
| >> >> Click the View tab
| >> >> Uncheck "Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items"
option
| >> >> Click OK
| >>
| >>
 
It's what I was looking for too. If I change my mind later and want the
ballon tips  back, is there a reverse proceedure?  TIA,
--
RobF
Address invalid


| Try this script here on line 18:
|
|http://www.paulsxp.com/tweaksxp.html
|
| This script will disable All balloon Tips.
|
| --
| Windows XP and Vista Tweaks
| ------------------------------------------------------------
|www.paulsxp.com
| ------------------------------------------------------------
| Windows XP and Vista Help Forum
| ------------------------------------------------------------
|www.paulsxp.com/forum
| ------------------------------------------------------------
| Live Computer Help and Chat
| ------------------------------------------------------------
|www.paulsxp.com/livesupport.html
| ------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|| > I did as you advised, but I still get the blasted Balloon Tips showing
up
| > everywhere. I have Windows XP Professional SP3 installed.
| >
| >
| >
| > "Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:
| >
| >> You're welcome!
| >>
| >> --
| >> Ramesh, MS-MVP
| >> Windows Shell/User
| >>
| >> Windows XP Troubleshooting
| >>http://www.winhelponline.com
| >>
| >> Windows XP Newsgroup Setup Instructions for Outlook Express:
| >>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroupsetup.mspx
| >>
| >>| >> > Thank you Ramesh, problem solved.
| >> >
| >> > "Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:
| >> >
| >> >> Open Control Panel, Folder Options applet
| >> >> Click the View tab
| >> >> Uncheck "Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items"
option
| >> >> Click OK
| >>
| >>
Click to expand...

This is one of my personal issues about downloading scripts and
registry edits that have no explanation. It is a little uncomfortable
to me, so I always want to see what it is doing and do it myself. I
always feel a little at risk because I may not know what just happened
in that blink.

I know folks like Paul, Ramesh and Kelly are skilled programmers and
have an arsenal of quick fixes and solutions that are great and for
that we are truly grateful. They may not have time to put commentary
in the many fixes that they have.

If you use a text editor to look at the source code of the script
after downloading (and there is a view option - good), there is some
commentary and you can see it is very polite and even gives you an
option to bail out. Then it sets a bunch of appropriate registry
settings to zero (0). Setting things to zero things off usually.
Setting them back to one (1) will turn them back on.

Like the commentary says, this script turns all the tips off. You
could later manually change the registry settings back to one (1) if
you want to just turn on certain ones. You could also turn them all
back on, by hand or with another script.

If someday you want to undo this exact script, make an undo script and
change the appropriate values from zero to one and run the undo
script. Now you are a VB programmer!

You could go further and research every registry entry the script
modified - like FolderContentsInfoTip, and decide if that is what you
want on or off and just do a couple until it is just right for you.

Jose
 
Yes there is, I will have a script on my site later. Check back.
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Of course!

Later, I felt guilty about not acknowledging other people that have
similar good offerings, but that is all I thought of before hitting
the sometimes wished I hadn't Send button...
 
| Yes there is, I will have a script on my site later. Check back.
|
Will do, Paul. Thanks a lot.
--
RobF
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| Windows XP and Vista Tweaks
| ------------------------------------------------------------
| www.paulsxp.com
| ------------------------------------------------------------
| Windows XP and Vista Help Forum
| ------------------------------------------------------------
| www.paulsxp.com/forum
| ------------------------------------------------------------
| Live Computer Help and Chat
| ------------------------------------------------------------
| www.paulsxp.com/livesupport.html
| ------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
| | > It's what I was looking for too. If I change my mind later and want the
| > ballon tips back, is there a reverse proceedure? TIA,
| > --
| > RobF
| > Address invalid

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