Rectangles, rectangles and more rectangles!

JimL · Oct 15, 2009

OK, I wasn't seeing Balloons. I was seeing rectangles and thought they were
referred to as balloons.

These rectangles appear on top of what your mouse cursor goes over and
generally duplicate what you probably already see.

Anywhere on the bottom bar, system tray or task bar - everything, a
rectangle will pop up on top of whatever icon is there and show it's name.
Menu bars, task bars, navigation bars, search bars almost any bar where
there is an icon.

In a browser program such as FireFox, when the cursor goes over a bookmark
it duplicates the name of the bookmark.

Maybe someone has a real name for these?

JS · Oct 15, 2009

JimL said:
OK, I wasn't seeing Balloons. I was seeing rectangles and thought they
were referred to as balloons.

These rectangles appear on top of what your mouse cursor goes over and
generally duplicate what you probably already see.

Anywhere on the bottom bar, system tray or task bar - everything, a
rectangle will pop up on top of whatever icon is there and show it's name.
Menu bars, task bars, navigation bars, search bars almost any bar where
there is an icon.

In a browser program such as FireFox, when the cursor goes over a
bookmark it duplicates the name of the bookmark.

Maybe someone has a real name for these?

--
JimL

The purpose of complicated software is to provide excitement for geeks
with not enough to do; busy people can go suck eggs. Winstun Churchhill

Tooltips

JimL · Oct 24, 2009

Tooltips

Aha! Now if I could just find out how to turn them off. A couple hours of
Googling got me a lot of esoteric techno babble.

Thanks

JD · Oct 24, 2009

JimL said:
Aha! Now if I could just find out how to turn them off. A couple hours of
Googling got me a lot of esoteric techno babble.

Thanks

I've never tried these but all I did was search for "turn off tool tips"

http://www.theeldergeek.com/tool_tip_displays.htm

http://pcs.suite101.com/article.cfm/enable_disable_tool_tip_displays

JS · Oct 24, 2009

JimL said:
Aha! Now if I could just find out how to turn them off. A couple hours
of Googling got me a lot of esoteric techno babble.

Thanks

Kelly's Korner: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_t.htm
Search for: Tool Tips - Disable (about half way down the page)

JimL · Oct 29, 2009

JD said:
I've never tried these but all I did was search for "turn off tool tips"

http://www.theeldergeek.com/tool_tip_displays.htm

http://pcs.suite101.com/article.cfm/enable_disable_tool_tip_displays

Yes, those are both the same thing. I _have_ tried them - in fact the
settings are still in there. But the little irritating boxes still chase my
mouse curser around.

Thanks.

JimL · Oct 29, 2009

JS said:
Kelly's Korner: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_t.htm
Search for: Tool Tips - Disable (about half way down the page)

Yes, that's the same one as JD posted, only from a different place. I've
found that one all over the internet, but it doesn't kill the peripatetic,
mentally challenged rectangles.

Thanks