DANG!! These tooltips are driving me crazy!

July 2, 2003 6:30 PM from

I've tried everything to disable them. I tried modyfying the regisrty as instructed on windows xp help pages, tried unchecking tooltips in the folder options display, tried disabling them in tweak ui for xp and tweaknow powerpack and STILL they keep appearing.

Any thoughts ? any ideas?

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Reply #1 July 2, 2003 7:06 PM from

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Are you using just XP or are you using windowblinds or something too?

Reply #2 July 2, 2003 7:12 PM from

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winxp pro and WB

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Reply #3 July 2, 2003 8:31 PM from

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i've tried many 'fixes' also, but to no avail. finally gave up.

Reply #4 July 2, 2003 8:36 PM from

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They talked about it on TechTV a while back... changing the registry shoulda worked. But I dunno if WB screws the tooltips up or not. Did you try checking if the tooltips come up outside of WB?

Reply #5 July 2, 2003 8:42 PM from

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If you're talking about those annoying Ballon Info popups, I got rid of them with this.

http://www.nextgenerationtools.com/index.html

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Reply #6 July 2, 2003 9:01 PM from

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koasati

I just downloaded and tried Tweaks and tools (from your link) and that didnt work either. IM doomed! I hate those stupid pop up tips

Reply #7 July 2, 2003 9:05 PM from

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crissy, did you reboot?

Reply #8 July 2, 2003 9:05 PM from

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Crissy....is this the registry hack you tried ?

Registry Settings
User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
Advanced]
Value Name: EnableBalloonTips
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value Data: (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)

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Reply #9 July 2, 2003 9:10 PM from

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Chrissy...do you mean the small pop-up tips when you mouseover a program or do you mean the ballon tips that crop up?

Reply #10 July 2, 2003 9:13 PM from

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I mean the tips that appear when you mouse over. And yrag, yes that is the registry hack I used. the exact one

Reply #11 July 2, 2003 9:24 PM from

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well crissy, I'll tell you what...if you find how let ME know because I would just as soon get rid of mine too

/me was happy just to get rid of ballons popping

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Reply #12 July 2, 2003 9:28 PM from

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Yeah...that would be one killer script. I hate that stupid thing too...

Tooltip? Like I don't know what I'm looking at by now? Yeah, for advanced users it would be a nice tweak...

Reply #13 July 2, 2003 9:34 PM from

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I surfed around for awhile and came up with this.......I have not tried this, so try at your own risk............

Q. How do I disable the tooltips in Windows XP and Windows 2000 for the Minimize, Maximize, and Close buttons?

A. XP and Win2K display a tip when you position the mouse on the Minimize, Maximize, or Close button. To disable this functionality, perform the following steps:

Start the registry editor (regedit.exe).
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop.
Double-click UserPreferencesMask.
Modify the first number in the string using the following equivalent values (e.g., change 9e 3e 07 80 to 1e 3e 07 80):
Change 8 to 0
Change 9 to 1
Change a to 2
Change b to 3
Change c to 4
Change d to 5
Change e to 6
Click OK.
Close the registry editor.
Log off, then log on again for the change to take effect.

This will get rid of all.........

To disable ToolTips in Windows XP:

1) Open the Registry Editor
2) Navigate to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop.
3) Double-click UserPreferencemask and change its value to 3E 00 00 00.
4) Close the Registry Editor and restart Windows.

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Reply #14 July 3, 2003 5:02 AM from

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And to think that I went to all that trouble to make fake tooltips in my last skin. I didn't realise they were hated so much.

Reply #15 July 3, 2003 6:18 AM from

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A. XP and Win2K display a tip when you position the mouse on the Minimize, Maximize, or Close button.

I guess I'm just lucky......... I've never seen this behavior. That would drive me batty!

Reply #16 July 3, 2003 6:38 AM from

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OMG. Nothing anyone has suggested is working for me. I know its not WB related cause this annoying problem was present before I started using WB. MS Windows really IS "THe Fisher Price" OS. Thse stupid balloon/tool tips are for tots who dont know how to use a computer. Thanks for all your suggestions . Im gonna keep trying to disable those nast things though

Reply #17 July 3, 2003 7:34 AM from

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Ah...is THIS yet another benefit of alternate shells?.....Good old Explorer....

Reply #18 July 3, 2003 9:16 AM from

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I haven't ever seen the tooltips for the Minimize, Maximize, or Close buttons. But I get them on practically everything else. I hate 'em.

Reply #19 July 3, 2003 9:45 AM from

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To disable ToolTips in Windows XP: 1) Open the Registry Editor 2) Navigate to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop. 3) Double-click UserPreferencemask and change its value to 3E 00 00 00. 4) Close the Registry Editor and restart Windows.

werewolf- if you feel daring try this one...........

Reply #20 July 3, 2003 2:36 PM from

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Doesn't work...

Reply #21 July 3, 2003 2:44 PM from

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Thanks for trying it Fuzzy (just wasn't up to trying myself...one of those days). I guess it's back to the drawing board...I'll find it....somewhere

Reply #22 July 4, 2003 10:59 AM from

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I posted a thread that eliminates all tooltips system wide and almost no one responded.You must be running Winamp 2.x AND a plugin called niceMC.The thread was called "odd tip for getting rid of tooltip popups " for more info.Dont know why this works but it was posted on the winamp site.It was a side effect of the combination of winamp and niceMC.Dosnt work for winamp3 and niceMC3,It has to be winamp 2.x and the niceMC plugin for winamp 2.x(i'm using 2.91)Even if you dont use winamp it's worth the 5 mb to get rid of the nasty buggers.Dont know if OS makes any difference(i'm on xp)

Reply #23 July 4, 2003 11:06 AM from

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I bumped the tip for you crissy...this has worked perfectly for me so far.Ifyou run a program that you need the tooltips for just exit winamp and they come back immediately.

Reply #24 July 4, 2003 6:19 PM from

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bump

Reply #25 July 5, 2003 9:36 AM from

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You know I never noticed the tool tips... until now!!

I guess I was so quick with the mouse that I didn't see it or I just got use to it.

I also noticed on win98 when windowblinds is on I don't get tool tips for the min/max

Funny, I thought this thread was about SkinStudio and those tips that pop up all over the place. It was cool at first and even at second, but now I sooooo want to turn them off. My computer doesn't have enough RAM as it is and I notice my 5 year old win98 system crashes because of them (you should see how hard it tried to keep up with all the baloons

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