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Old 02-02-2008   #6 (permalink)
SG


 
 

Re: Those narrow, rectangular window things......

That's because the tweaking for this is built right in,,,,,,,,,,

Open Explorer and click on Tools then Folder Options then the View tab. At
the bottom uncheck "Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items"

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All the best,
SG

"Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Sig" <Ziggy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:0F4EC651-C2A6-408A-9A3A-9D0505635FC7@xxxxxx
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>> What do you call those narrow white rectangular windows that appear every
>> time my clicker points at something, to tell me what I'm looking at!?
>> And,
>> how do you get rid of those pesky things!! They're more of a nuisance
>> than
>> Bill is to Hillary!
>
>
> They are called tooltips. You can usually turn them off using TweakUI,
> but there is no version for Vista, as yet. Maybe one of the other
> tweaking programs can turn them off, but they can be pretty handy.
>
> ss.
>
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