That's because the tweaking for this is built right in,,,,,,,,,,

Open Explorer and click on Tools then Folder Options then the View tab. At
the bottom uncheck "Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items"

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All the best,
SG

"Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@NOSPAMgomez404.elitemail.org> wrote in message
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> "Sig" <Ziggy******.com> wrote in message
> news:0F4EC651-C2A6-408A-9A3A-9D0505635FC7@microsoft.com...[color=green]
>> 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.
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