Too many tooltips

[Excavatorak]

In XP...Is there a way to control which tooltips get displayed when you do a mouseover?
I use and would like to keep some but not all.

Keep:
-the date that pops up when you hold mouse on the time in the tray
-toolbar descriptions

Get rid of:
Just about all the rest of them.


Are these even called tooltips???

[Johnny Fist]

Well, I tracked the ones down for the desktop icons My Computer, My Documents, and the Recycle Bin. You'll need to fire up regedit and modify the following entries...

My Computer is at [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}]

My Documents is at [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}]

Recycle Bin is at [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}]

You can safely modify the string value Infotip to say whatever you want. Mine, for example, are random obscenities. You could try and delete the InfoTip to see if that disables tooltips for those icons. Or the safe bet would be to just remove the text in that string but then again it might still display a little empty tootip. You'll have to play around with it.

I can't stress enough backing up the strings before you do something. In the event you screw up you can always just double click the exported reg file and merge the original data back into the registry. This probably isn't exactly what you were hoping for, but its still fun to play with.

You can always modify the tooltips to say things that are inappropriate to mention in this forum then export them to a floppy disc and take it to BestBuy with you for a little fun and games, too. But you didn't hear that from me.

[Johnny Fist]

And just in case anyone still cares...

I was looking through the group policy editor and found an option to disable tooltips in the taskbar under User Config>Admin Templates>Start Menu and Taskbar.