XP PRO SP2 current maint

This annoyed me for a long time and most places I looked kept saying there is nothing you can do about this. They still outrank this site for most searches, so that means lots of people aren’t finding this (I found it from a comment on one fo the sites that said there are no solutions).

So aside from a small chip-in, give Neosmart a boost by writing a short blog post with a nice link back to this app!

And, thanks - this was driving me nuts!

I’m wondering, since you developed a hack for tooltips, if there is a way to change the time tooltips are displayed in Windows XP?

I often find it hard to read texts in tooltips because they only show for about 3 seconds and then dissapear.
Then I have to move my mouse away and then back to see the tooltip again.

But this is irritating and I would rather like to set the time the tooltips in Windows will show so I will have time to read the tooltips.

Any ideas?

Best Regards

Olle Söderberg

* switch off the computer, but wait until all become gray. DO NOT hit any buttons (switch off, hibernate,etc)

*hit “cancel”-the computer return his colour.

*hide the tollbar bellow, pulling it down. Make it again visible.

*now the tooltips are again visible at full height.

Voila…

you can try this by downloading winamp, finding the visulation addon called milkdrop (it might come with winamp now). then in the settings of milkdrop find mutlisampling and enable this to what ever you want on the windows settings. then okay and start the vis on window setting, while this is running hover your mouse over the startmenu, or the applications running so it displays the tooltips. did it work/not work?

bare in mind i have an ATI graphics card with the newest drivers and all, (i do not have the catalist drivers as they slow the frame rates, but just the drivers, with ati tools).

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looked hopeful, but yet again no luck. Thank you for your help. By the looks of it we’re all just going to have to put up with it.

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It seems others around the net are having the same issue as yourself. I’d guess that this hack used to work, once upon a long time ago with an older version of Windows XP.
http://www.flexbeta.net/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t4078.html

Lol ofc, I stopped explorer.exe in task manager and restarted it, so it picks up the new registr, (and restarted after doing this), but no luck. It must be hard coded.. in which case this service which has been made, can you make it do the oppisite?

You seem to have all the registry hacks covered….. Assuming what you’re trying to do is stop tooltips from showing in the first place, I can’t find any other registry changes to disable that behavior besides what you’ve already posted.

Have you restarted your PC? 

I have tried all of the following:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"FolderContentsInfoTip"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\tips]
"Show"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"StartButtonBalloonTip"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"ShowInfoTip"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoSMBalloonTip"=dword:00000000

Thank You