Taskbar Tooltips

[manc39]

Windows XP SP2

Tooltips in the taskbar will not disappear by themselves and need to be clicked on before they go.

Any ideas?

[CurlingSteve]

Do you really mean tooltips, like "Click here to begin" when you hover the Start button?

Or do you mean Notifications like " Wireless Network Connected..."?

As I recall, those come under the BalloonTips catagory.

You can disable them with RegEdit.

Find the key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

Set EnableBalloonTips to 0.

I haven't located a time delay for those yet.

You'd think there must be one somewhere (I'll look around a bit).

That may be controlled be each application separately, if it's available at all.

[tictoc5150]

As I recall, those come under the BalloonTips catagory.

You can disable them with RegEdit.

Find the key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

Set EnableBalloonTips to 0.

Good tip CurlingSteve....I've always used TweakUI to shut them off though...and way too many other tweaks accessible to not recommend that utility also

[manc39]

Thanks for your quick replies.

I mean these:

But I don't want to disable them completely, I just want them to work as they should.

[CurlingSteve]

That's a BalloonTip.

No luck hunting down an overall (global) timeout for those yet.

From what I've seen so far, they're supposed to close after 30 seconds unless the application creating it specifies a different timeout.

And the timer doesn't start until the computer thinks you're doing something.

Reference

For that network balloon, maybe turning off the tray notification for it, rebooting, and turning it back on will fix it.

You should be able to do that from the connection's Properties page.