Those narrow, rectangular window things......

[Sig]

What do you call those narrow white rectangular windows that appear every
time my clicker points at something, to tell me what I'm looking at!? And,
how do you get rid of those pesky things!! They're more of a nuisance than
Bill is to Hillary!

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

What do you call those narrow white rectangular windows that appear every
time my clicker points at something, to tell me what I'm looking at!?
And,
how do you get rid of those pesky things!! They're more of a nuisance
than
Bill is to Hillary!

They are called tooltips. You can usually turn them off using TweakUI, but
there is no version for Vista, as yet. Maybe one of the other tweaking
programs can turn them off, but they can be pretty handy.

ss.

 

[Bob]

TweakVI Basic for Vista
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,64563/description.html

 

[Nil]

TweakVI Basic for Vista
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,64563/description.html

Beware. The user comments are almost unanimously negative.

 

[SG]

That's because the tweaking for this is built right in,,,,,,,,,,

Open Explorer and click on Tools then Folder Options then the View tab. At
the bottom uncheck "Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items"