Balloons !#@)*#$%&@$)($&%8!!!

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ac

I hate the "balloons" in Win XP. For instance when you
your cursor is over the "X" in the upper right of any
window - the displays a "balloon" the says CLOSE. etc.,
etc., etc.,

I would like to get rid of these - as they are very
annoying.

Some one sent me to a WinXP PRo support site and they had
a Registry Modifier that was supposed to eliminate it - it
did nothing.

Any other thoughts ?
Thanks

AC
 
The one you refer to is known as Hot Tracking.

This is for close, maximise, etc tips.

The user preference mask (at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop) is a hexadecimal representation of bit values. To set use Windows Calculator and the values from the table below.

To use Windows Calculator take the value from UserPreferences and AND it with the value from the table below.

a.. Put the value from the table below into Calculator in Hex mode
b.. Press AND
c.. Take the value from from user preferences (in this sample 000000fd as it's byte order reversed). (assuming it shows UserPreferencemask = fd,00,00,00)
If it is set it will return the same value as the table below, if it's not set it will return 0

Hot Tracking = 80
 
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