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Disabling Balloon Tips
Added 11/9/01

To turn off balloon tips in applications that support XP Themes:

Start Regedit

Go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced\


Create a DWORD value of EnableBalloonTips

Give it a value of 0

It doesn't work. I've tried it months ago, it's still sitting in my
registry. I'm still getting popup tooltips
(http://www.geocities.com/cwghosty/ms...1109190381312),
and nothing seems to work




Gary Woodruff wrote:
> You can of course remove any Tool Tip from an icon.
>
> 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
> news:96E69C02499EE31E75@204.153.244.170...
> > 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"?