Tweak Library – Disable tooltips for Minimize, Maximize and Close buttons.

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Disable tooltips for Minimize, Maximize and Close buttons.

This setting disables the tooltips that appear on the opening of a document, when you move the cursor over the Minimize, Maximize or Close buttons on the top-right corner of the window.

Tweak for : Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista

Description:

By default, Windows show short information as tool tip when you hover mouse over the Minimize, Maximize or Close buttons of a program or an application. This setting can disable this feature.

For this, go to Start > Run menu, enter “regedit” and navigate to the registry path listed below. Now, right-click and modify the Binary value “UserPreferencesMask”, in the right panel. The new value should correspond to the chart given below depending upon the default value on your system.

Remember:
Only the first number / character of the binary value should be changed. Say if the default data value in “9E 3E 07 80”, the changed value will be “1E 3E 07 80” i.e. the first number “9” should be replaced with “1”.

First Number/Alphabet	Replaced Value
8	0
9	1
a	2
b	3
c	4
d	5
e	6

However, if you want to enable tooltips back, change the value data to original.

The changes take effect after a restart or logoff.

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Registry Entry Details:

Registry Entry 1 :

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\]

Key Type :

Current User

Value Name :

UserPreferencesMask

Data Type :

REG_BINARY (Binary Value)

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

New value corresponds to your system value

Value Action :

Modified

Steps ScreenShots:

Apply registry settings according below given steps of screenshots with related changes.

Tooltips are not visible for Minimize, Maximize and Close buttons on a window.

Tooltips are visible.

First, click the Start button, and select Run. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit"

Second, go to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\UserPreferencesMask] and right-click on "UserPreferencesMask" and select 'Modify'.

Finally change the Binary Value “9E 3E 07 80” to “1E 3E 07 80” and click 'OK'.