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, if you hover over
and wait approx. 1 second, the following box appears above it.
You can also switch off these tips if they bother you. And this is how you proceed:
Pro tip: Deactivate info boxes
1. Click one after the other on Start and type it into the command line regedit followed by Enter. The program for editing the Windows registry.
2. Move through the folder-like keys called HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ Advanced and click in the right part of the program on the entry 
and enter the value in the pop-up window 0 inside.
3. After they have been OK confirmed 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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