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Eliminating descriptive text bar that appears when cursor is placed on an icon
Saturday, December 25, 2004 at 11:17 pm
Posted by Chloe (1 messages posted)

Help! How do I get rid of those truly annoying text messages that appear when the cursor is placed on a desktop icon. I don't mean the icon name underneath it. This is a long white rectangle with redundant info on it. For example, with the recycle bin it informs me that this is for files, folders, etc. that I want to discard. In otherwords they tell you what you already know. I am pretty much a beginner so hopefully the answer is not too technical.....Many Thanks, Chloe

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re: Eliminating descriptive text bar that appears when cursor is placed on an icon
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 5:32 am
Posted by triplate (20096 messages posted)

Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER 
Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced 
Name: EnableBalloonTips 
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 0 disables tips ...you may have to create the DWord first...

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