Tooltip issue

[Paul Jackson]

Hello,

I've noticed that my tooltips display such things as the shortcut
target, file type, date modified etc instead of the simple file name.

Is there a way to fix this issue so that the tooltip is the basic name.

Thanks

XP SP2

 

[frodo]

tooltips for icons on the destop display the text that is present in
various places in the items Properties page. Right click the icon and
choose properties. You'll notice on the Shortcut tab there is a comment
field at the bottom. If this is filled in w/ something, that's what will
display on the tooltip. If not, it'll display the target's
filename/location. experiment, you'll get it...

 

[Paul Jackson]

tooltips for icons on the destop display the text that is present in
various places in the items Properties page. Right click the icon and
choose properties. You'll notice on the Shortcut tab there is a comment
field at the bottom. If this is filled in w/ something, that's what will
display on the tooltip. If not, it'll display the target's
filename/location. experiment, you'll get it...

Thanks for the reply. It seems that the behavior is to 'always' display
the Type, Date Modified and Size as well as the comments (if filled in)
or the file location. Hmmm.

 

[frodo]

Thanks for the reply. It seems that the behavior is to 'always' display
the Type, Date Modified and Size as well as the comments (if filled in)
or the file location. Hmmm.

Hmm indeed; mine does not do that, for DESKTOP icons. Let me elaborate; if
I hover over a shortcut to an .exe, it shows the comment only, or the
location if no comment is entered. if it's a shortcut to a folder, it
shows the location (there is no comment field in that shortcut). For the
"special" icons, like My Computer, My Docs, IE, it shows (I assume) a
"canned" descriptive string.

Now, in an explorer window, it typically shows the location, except for
file types that have their own "tool-tip handler" dll registered, like
mp3's, which show the tag info (artist, track, etc). I know that there
are some 3rd party tool-tip handlers available out there that provide
special tt's for some file types; one displays the EXIF tags from jpg
files.

Also, you can manually alter what a tooltip displays by editing the
registry. the key for tool tips is called "infotip". Search thru the reg
for this string and you find all the various keys for each filetype. It
can take several forms: a straight forward comment (as for My COmputer), a
pointer to a dll that handles the tooltip, or a "property template" for
generic files. You can edit these; do a google for the various items
allowed; try here for starters:

http://www.virtualplastic.net/html/ui_tips.html

good luck.