Solved Cannot change tooltip hover time

OldGrantonian · Feb 6, 2009

I tried Brink's tip to increase the hover time before a tooltip appears:

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/203607-mouse-hover-time-change.html

The default is 400 (milliseconds). I changed this to 5000, which should be 5 seconds.

This would be long enough not to annoy me, but still short enough if I really need to know what the tooltip is saying.

However, I don't think this has any effect on my pop-up time.

I tried the value of 500,000 used by "KWMN ", which she said has stopped the popup. I tried this value, but it made no difference.

I am rebooting after each experiment. And the change is persistent when I re-open the registry after each reboot.

Any advice?
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Brink · Feb 6, 2009

Hello OldGrantonian,

You could use the tutorial below to turn off pop-up descriptions instead.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/77088-pop-up-description.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

OldGrantonian · Feb 6, 2009

Brink said:
You could use the tutorial below to turn off pop-up descriptions instead.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/77088-pop-up-description.html

Hi Shawn,

Your advice has stopped the tooltips in Windows Explorer and my desktop. Thanks for the grand tip

I don't want to appear ungrateful, but it would be nice to know why only some users can edit your recommended registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse\MouseHoverTime
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Brink · Feb 6, 2009

You're welcome OldGrantonian.

I'm starting to believe that it will not affect some types of pop-ups.

Solved Cannot change tooltip hover time

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