tooltips suck

[Guest]

Whenever I roll my mouse over any button, icon, filename,
picture, ANYTHING on my desktop or in a window or in an
application, etc., I get a little yellow sticky-note
popup (otherwise known as a "tooltip"). These are VERY
ANNOYING because they tend to cover over things I am
trying to read. Several people have helped me turn them
off here and there, but I'd like to be able to turn them
off ENTIRELY for all apps throughout Windows. There
needs to be a Control Panel option to customize Windows
and turn off tooltips. Does anybody know someone
important enough at Microsoft to be able to suggest they
put this change into the next release of Windows?

 

[anonymous]

-- Start
-- Control Panel
-- Folder Options
-- View tab
Scroll to the bottom and UNcheck:
Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items
Apply
OK
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What you are complaining about are called Balloon Tops
and they ARE a real
pain.
Here's how to get rid of them.
Copy the following three lines to Notepad or some
editor. Word is ok:
---------------------------------------------------
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVerso
n\Explorer\Advanced]

"EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000000

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Now save that file as "DiableBaloonTips.reg"
Double-click the saved file to execute.
Reboot.

This makes a change to your registry to tell XP not to
use them. You may
want to be very safe and do an export of your entire
registry with RegEdit
prior to doing anything that makes changes.
=====================================

 

[buttplug]

-----Original Message-----
Whenever I roll my mouse over any button, icon, filename,
picture, ANYTHING on my desktop or in a window or in an
application, etc., I get a little yellow sticky-note
popup (otherwise known as a "tooltip"). These are VERY
ANNOYING because they tend to cover over things I am
trying to read. Several people have helped me turn them
off here and there, but I'd like to be able to turn them
off ENTIRELY for all apps throughout Windows. There
needs to be a Control Panel option to customize Windows
and turn off tooltips. Does anybody know someone
important enough at Microsoft to be able to suggest they
put this change into the next release of Windows?
.

Everything from M$ sucks (including tooltips)!

Bill Gates has a severe case of cranial-rectal inversion
(otherwise he would use me) as is apparent in his
company's lousy products, hence people like us get stiffed!