"pop up" balloon tips-can you cancel them?

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One of the things that irritates me about Windows is that
MS seems to think we need to see things twice.

Seriously, take for example web browsing. When your mouse
pointer is on a page, it is common for a balloon to pop
up repeating the content of the nearest link. I know you
have seen them. But the problem is, the balloon can be
rather big, and covers items I am trying to see. So I am
irritated by the time it takes me to move my pointer to
a "dead" spot before I can read the page.

Seems I saw a report where it was possible to defeat this
feature by modifying the register. But I can't find it.
Maybe I am incorrectly using the terms "pop up"
and "balloon tip" wrong, or perhaps its the web page, and
not the OS.

Any one know about this?

Thanks in advance.

art
 
More than likely it is the web page, and not the OS.

Perhaps you could provide a hyperlink to such a web page, and indicate a link on that page where this occurs.

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Jan

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| One of the things that irritates me about Windows is that
| MS seems to think we need to see things twice.
|
| Seriously, take for example web browsing. When your mouse
| pointer is on a page, it is common for a balloon to pop
| up repeating the content of the nearest link. I know you
| have seen them. But the problem is, the balloon can be
| rather big, and covers items I am trying to see. So I am
| irritated by the time it takes me to move my pointer to
| a "dead" spot before I can read the page.
|
| Seems I saw a report where it was possible to defeat this
| feature by modifying the register. But I can't find it.
| Maybe I am incorrectly using the terms "pop up"
| and "balloon tip" wrong, or perhaps its the web page, and
| not the OS.
|
| Any one know about this?
|
| Thanks in advance.
|
| art
 
Thank you, Jan.

After I posted, I went and looked. Sure enough, they
happen in IE 6.0 with XP, as well as in XP Explorer. I
saved a screen shot of each and they will be at

http://www.artcolleys.net/Balloon-POPUP-01.htm

http://www.artcolleys.net/Balloon-POPUP-02.htm

I don't have my password at home to upload them, but I
will do it tomorrow. So the link right now will
show "cannot show this page", or whatever it does, but
tomorrow it will work.

In the first one, #01, is a shot of IE 6.0. Look at the
link in the upper right for "MSNBC", and you will see the
tan-colored balloon below it. This seems to be IE itself,
not the page??

In the second one, #02, is a shot of computer explorer in
windows XP. Look in the center of the page, and you can
see the same thing.

I really appreciate your looking at this.

Regards, Art

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More than likely it is the web page, and not the OS.

Perhaps you could provide a hyperlink to such a web
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page, and indicate a link on that page where this occurs.
 
art;

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"FolderContentsInfoTip"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\tips]
"Show"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"StartButtonBalloonTip"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"ShowInfoTip"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoSMBalloonTip"=dword:00000000
 
An Update.

After posting to help someone else on another item, I
remembered a check box in "Folder..." in "Tools" and
clearing the "pop up" box got rid of the ones in computer
explorer. I remeber now that I had done that before. But
now they are still there in IE.

Thanks, Art
 
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