Re: Turning off annoying hover windows

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From: Art (noonehere_at_longone.net)
Date: 11/16/04 

Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 10:58:52 -0500

Bob (the OP)...
Re: turning off the balloon tips...
>From Doug Knox's site:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_balloontips.htm

"xp_balloontips.vbs -Disable Windows® XP's Balloon Tips
© Doug Knox - 02/06/2002

This VB Script will add Disable Windows® XP's Balloon Tips.

To use: Download the xp_balloontips.vbs file and save it to your hard drive
(you may want to right click and use Save Target As). Double-click
xp_balloontips.vbs file. You will be prompted when the changes have been
completed. This script can be viewed in Notepad or any text editor, as to
the specific Registry key and value that are updated.

This page last updated 04/14/2002"

Art

"Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:419A13C6.3040903@yahoo.com...
> Windows Explorer, Tools, Folder Options, View, Uncheck Show popups will
> take care of most of them. As to the Taskbar, editing the Comment in the
> shortcut will reduce the size, as will trimming the "description".
>
> Bob wrote:
>
>> I have tried to find a solution to this problem for months... I have
>> searched the internet from one end to the other... no one has come up
>> with a solution or fix.
>>
>> I want to TURN OFF the ANNOYING pop-up information boxes that open up
>> everytime I hover over and icon or file name with my cursor. They are
>> everywhere in Windows, in file boxes, icons, anything I mouse over I get
>> the stupid window telling me about a particular file. Problem is that
>> these stupid windows are always IN THE WAY.
>>
>> I am NOT talking about "balloon tips", as I have tried every registry
>> hack known to turn these off. I am talking about the yellow rectangle
>> boxes that pop up everywhere, when I hover on the taskbar for example
>> the window will pop up and tell me what the icon is for.
>>
>> If I hover over the IE icon on the taskbar I get this message in a
>> 2-line ywllow box:
>>
>> "Launch Internet Explorer browser
>> Finds and displays information and websites on the Internet"
>>
>> Well, DUH, I think it's pretty obvious that clicking the icon will
>> launch IE and that I KNOW that I will be able to surf the internet once
>> it opens. I don't need a box to tell me this I wonder what moron
>> programmer came up with this stupid idea? Worse, not allowing an easy
>> way to turn off the annoying boxes.
>>
>> Help!!!!
>>
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>

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