You can of course remove any Tool Tip from an icon.

For each icon, simply right-click it and choose Properties from the menu that
appears. On the shortcut tab, change or remove the text in the box next to the
"Comment:" field and click OK.

And you can turn them off completely with a Registry entry like the instructions for
Disabling Balloon Tips here.
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/window...m#balloon_tips

But I am unaware of a way to globally make some work and others not.
--
Gary Woodruff MS-MVP

"That'll be the day" - John Wayne in The Searchers


"Alex Coleman" <coalie@nomail.com> wrote in message
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> Using XP Pro/SP1. Win Explorer set to "Show Details".
>
> I see tooltips appear automatically when I move my *cursor* from one
> file to another in Windows Explorer.
>
> In the past I seem to recall I would see tooltips when I hovered my
> mouse over a file in Win Explorer or over an icon on the desktop.
>
> Can I disable the "cursor tooltip" and enable just the "mouse
> tooltip"?