"Sig" <Ziggy******.com> wrote in message
news:0F4EC651-C2A6-408A-9A3A-9D0505635FC7@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> What do you call those narrow white rectangular windows that appear every
> time my clicker points at something, to tell me what I'm looking at!?
> And,
> how do you get rid of those pesky things!! They're more of a nuisance
> than
> Bill is to Hillary![/color]


They are called tooltips. You can usually turn them off using TweakUI, but
there is no version for Vista, as yet. Maybe one of the other tweaking
programs can turn them off, but they can be pretty handy.

ss.