Ravindra Kulkarni
Ever notice that when you hover your cursor over a program listing in the Start menu a little help box pops up? This help feature is called Balloon Help. If users do not know what a program does, they can hold the cursor over the program for a second or so and a little message will fade in telling users what it is-if the programmer has set up this feature of the program. For programs that do not have this feature set up for their shortcut, the balloon just tells users where the program is located on their computer.
This feature can be useful for a beginning computer user. However, it can be another annoyance for more advanced users. If you don’t need this feature, why not disable it? Follow these steps to get rid of this feature:
- Click the Start menu and select Run, and then type regedit in the box and click OK.
- After the Registry Editor has been loaded, navigate though HKEY_CURRENT_ USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced.
- Right-click the entry called ShowInfoTip and select Modify.
- Set the value to 0 to disable this feature, and click OK.
- Close the Registry Editor and log off and back on so that the feature can be removed.
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