Control Desktop and Explorer Info Descriptions


If you want to turn off the descriptions that poppup when you place the cursor
above desktop icons or Explorer objects, you can use the following registy hack:

Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER

Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

Name: ShowInfoTip

Type: REG_DWORD

Value: 0 disable
Value: 1 display info tip

This tip is a Windows NT / Windows 2000 / Windows XP tip.

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