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Tooltips off

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Apply these two Registry hacks to completely disable the annoying tooltips ("mini-help" boxes) that pop up whenever you place the mouse cursor over objects/buttons/boxes/etc, supporting this feature in Windows 95/98/2000/ME/XP and MS Internet Explorer 3/4/5/6:

"Run Regedit and go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\ Explorer\Advanced

Modify/create the "ShowInfoTip" DWORD Value (no quotes) and give it a value of 0 in the Decimal box. To restore the tooltips change its Decimal value to 1.
The Start button tooltip still pops up though.

Hack #2:

start Regedit and go to:
HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\desktop

Now scroll to the "UserPreferencemask" Binary Value in the right hand pane.
Double-click on it & delete the first 2 digits by placing the cursor after the second character (there are a total of 8 editable digits there) hit Backspace twice type 3e (case insensitive)
click OK or press Enter.
You can also use this REG file (copy the lines bellow in Notepad and save it as TTIPOFF.REG), if you dislike "messing" with the Registry:



REGEDIT4

[HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\desktop]
"UserPreferencemask"=hex:3e,00,00,00