Quick overview:
If you move the mouse pointer over an icon on the desktop, in My Computer or in the Control Panel, for example, a yellow box will appear shortly afterwards displaying brief information about it. For example, hover over
and wait approx. 1 second, the following box will appear above it .
You can also disable these tips if they bother you. And this is how you proceed:
Pro tip: Deactivate info boxes
1. Click on Start and type regedit followed by Enter in the command line. The program for editing the Windows registry will appear.
2. Go through the folder-like keys named HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ Advanced and click on the entry 
and enter the value 0 in the pop-up window.
3. After you have confirmed with OK and restarted Windows, you are rid of the info boxes.
NOTE FOR NEW PUBLICATION: This article was produced by Sandro Villinger and comes from the Windows Tweaks archive, which has been built up since the late 1990s.
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