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Vista - Cannot change tooltip hover time

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02-06-2009   #1


Vista Home Premium 32bit
 
 

Cannot change tooltip hover time

I tried Brink's tip to increase the hover time before a tooltip appears:

Mouse Hover Time - Change

The default is 400 (milliseconds). I changed this to 5000, which should be 5 seconds.

This would be long enough not to annoy me, but still short enough if I really need to know what the tooltip is saying.

However, I don't think this has any effect on my pop-up time.

I tried the value of 500,000 used by "KWMN ", which she said has stopped the popup. I tried this value, but it made no difference.

I am rebooting after each experiment. And the change is persistent when I re-open the registry after each reboot.

Any advice?
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02-06-2009   #2


Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64
 
 

Re: Cannot change tooltip hover time

Hello OldGrantonian,

You could use the tutorial below to turn off pop-up descriptions instead.

Pop-Up Description

Hope this helps,
Shawn
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02-06-2009   #3


Vista Home Premium 32bit
 
 

Re: Cannot change tooltip hover time

Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by Brink View Post
You could use the tutorial below to turn off pop-up descriptions instead.

Pop-Up Description
Hi Shawn,

Your advice has stopped the tooltips in Windows Explorer and my desktop. Thanks for the grand tip

I don't want to appear ungrateful, but it would be nice to know why only some users can edit your recommended registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse\MouseHoverTime
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02-06-2009   #4


Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64
 
 

Re: Cannot change tooltip hover time

You're welcome OldGrantonian.

I'm starting to believe that it will not affect some types of pop-ups.
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