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Anyone know a real way to turn this crap off?

post #1 of 11
10/22/09 at 11:58pm
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I'm talking about this ridiculous "tip" which assumes I don't know how to close a window, or read what an icon says. Argh!
LL
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post #2 of 11
10/23/09 at 12:10am
That should only happen if you hover your mouse cursor over it for a few seconds...
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post #3 of 11
10/23/09 at 12:11am
Haha!

That's so small I never noticed it. Then again when I close or minimize windows I do it so qiuckly that it neve shows up.
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post #4 of 11
10/23/09 at 12:36am
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It doesn't just happen there. What really causes trouble is when it blocks text. Right when I go onto Google, I get a MS hover tip telling me, "GOOGLE". The biggest problem is when I'm using a spreadsheet program and it wants to dictate everything the mouse is hovering over during typing. I managed to get rid of that part. It's still making my websurfing miserable though. I guess if this is the only thing I have to complain about, life isn't all that bad.
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post #5 of 11
10/23/09 at 1:32am
Pop-Up Description - Vista Forums

not sure if this works for the tooltips but it's probably worth a shot, haven't tried it myself.
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post #6 of 11
10/23/09 at 1:34am
Hmm... It's doesn't bother me. Mine shows after about 2.5 seconds.

Why don't you just move the cursor out of the way?
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post #7 of 11
10/23/09 at 10:11am
Using TweakUI maybe?
tweakui - Google Search
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post #8 of 11
10/23/09 at 11:34am
start -> run -> regedit
Navigate to:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Advanced]

Set the key 'showinfotip' to 0
reboot***


***after this come back and thank me
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post #9 of 11
10/24/09 at 3:14am
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Originally Posted by fenixdown110 View Post
Hmm... It's doesn't bother me. Mine shows after about 2.5 seconds.

Why don't you just move the cursor out of the way?
The problem with moving the cursor does sound like a simple solution, what happens then is it pops up another tool tip right away in a different place. It's just a miserable thing to have.

I've tried Tweak UI, edited my registry and even turned off tips using Window XPs tool in the "tools options". I'm hoping if Windows 7 isn't horrible as was Vista, I'll be able to install it and have this be an option.

Anyone ran three operating systems on their PC? I have Vista and XP now. Vista didn't run my PCB layout program so I dual booted it with XP.
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post #10 of 11
10/24/09 at 5:23pm
Lol, that's soooo small.. Never really noticed it, or at least never found it annoying.
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post #11 of 11
10/24/09 at 5:31pm
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Originally Posted by deltaydeltax View Post
It doesn't just happen there. What really causes trouble is when it blocks text. Right when I go onto Google, I get a MS hover tip telling me, "GOOGLE". The biggest problem is when I'm using a spreadsheet program and it wants to dictate everything the mouse is hovering over during typing. I managed to get rid of that part. It's still making my websurfing miserable though. I guess if this is the only thing I have to complain about, life isn't all that bad.
Okay, then that pretty much confirms what I suspected. Sounds like you have the Accessibility Options turned on. Should be able to tweak them up in the Control Panel.

As to why they're turned on, maybe you have a USB peripheral that turned it on by default, much like when I first installed my Wacom tablet, Windows thought I wanted a virtual keyboard and other on-screen stuff by default.
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