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I want to disable hint when get my mouse over an item for example tree view or in Visual Studio.

Like in these screenshots here and here.

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Click Start – Run - regedit and press enter. This will open the Windows Registry Editor.

Now, navigate through to

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

Look for the DWORD ShowInfoTip, right-click and select Modify and change the value data as required

1 – Enable ToolTips (Default)

0 – Disable ToolTips

Restart your machine. This should disable all the tooltip's.

Edit : Updated one more way to disable tooltips:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop . On the right pane, double-click UserPreferencemask and change the value to 3E 00 00 00. Take a backup before you change this value.

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Thanks very much, but should I restart windows? – Hossein Margani Jun 7 '10 at 5:50
Yes. I guess... – TuxGeek Jun 7 '10 at 7:05
:( still I see hints. – Hossein Margani Jun 8 '10 at 7:38
Windows tool tips (operating system) are not the same as VS hints (application). – kmarsh Jun 8 '10 at 12:32
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