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01-16-2006, 07:07 PM
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Adequate
Location: In my angry-dome.
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Do you mean icons in the quick launch bar? (usually next to the Start button)
You can change the properties. Rt-click->Properties->General tab. Some are downright wordy. There are also the Windows Explorer tip settings. Some can be changed by tweakui, some not. Use Regedit if you're comfy with it: There's: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\tips\Show Then a bunch in HKEY_CurrentUser\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\ EnableBalloonTips FolderContentsInfoTip ShowInfoTip StartButtonBalloonTip Setting each DWORD to zero disables the tip type. *Standard Disclaimer* Write down original values and make a backup before changing anything. Do not try this at home. ...
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195 |
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01-18-2006, 02:12 PM
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Insane
Location: Sask, Canada
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a quicker way.. is to load up your local security policy or GPO..
go to run>gpedit.msc then go thru to.. user configuration > administrative templates > start menu and taskbar > "enable" remove balloon tips on start menu items another way to get to this setting is run > mmc > file > add/remove snap ins > add > group policy object editor then go to user configuration > administrative templates > start menu and taskbar > "enable" remove balloon tips on start menu items i find this way a lot easier and safer then playin aroudn with the registry |
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01-18-2006, 03:37 PM
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Adequate
Location: In my angry-dome.
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Yep, that policy setting (NoSMBalloonTip) affects the start menu balloon tips but not the others. (and if you're reading on XP Home, gpedit.msc isn't included)
Notification area tips can be controlled with EnableBalloonTips Popup folder info bubbles with FolderContentsInfoTip Icon description bubbles with ShowInfoTip There are half a dozen other hand-holders but they can be controlled with tweakui or built-in windows controls. It's often easiest (and safer than regedit) to just merge preferred registry settings from a template file. i.e. custom settings.reg: Code:
;Customize tips [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] "EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] "FolderContentsInfoTip"=dword:00000000 ;etc.
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