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Disabling Pop-Up Tool-Tips in Adobe Reader

Is there any way to disable these annoying tool-tips in adobe reader? They come up every time I open a document. I am using Adobe Reader X.
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How to remove tooltips in Internet Explorer

I'm looking for a way to disable the mouseover tooltips for images and hyperlinks in Internet Explorer. I've dug through the settings of IE 8 with no luck. My research suggests that only Opera has ...
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Corrupted tooltips on Windows 7

After a reboot (windows updates I'm guessing) I came back to my system displaying most windows tooltips in gibberish. I haven't the faintest idea what caused this. Anyone have ideas on how to address ...
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Hotkey for eclipse quick fix tooltip

Eclipse gives tool tips for errors and warnings in your code. Like most tooltips, these take a few seconds to popup. However, I've found myself fairly frustrated by the speed it takes for them to show ...
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Chunks of tooltips get stuck, where the screen isn't refreshing, I guess. (Windows 7 Professional x64, 1-2 monitors)

Here's a screenshot: It happens a lot, not always. This screenshot was taken after less than an hour of browsing web, searching for something desperately, a lot of mouse movement, plus working on ...
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tooltip catcher

Is there any software with the following feature It could be used to copy the tooltip text. For example, if I point mouse to button(say in Adobe Photoshop, it will display a long text). Then if I ...
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How to make Windows tooltip stay longer?

Is there any way to increase/decrease timeout of mouse-over tooltip (time it stays on the page until mouse pointer moved/button clicked)? I found some help to disable them entirely or increase time ...
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Disable taskbar tooltips in windows 7

I find they frequently get stuck open if you have a near-full-screen application open. Is it possible to disable them?
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Tooltips shadow stuck on desktop

I tends to get this problem from time to time. The tooltips with a shadow appearing on top of everything. It's the shadow of the tooltips not disappearing after the tooltips disappear. The last one I ...
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Is there a way that a tooltip message that appears in the browser can be copied into the clipboard?

This is not code I am writing. Otherwise I would use css, js, or an ie8 accelerator for what I need. Also. I am looking for something my endusers (non technical) can use. So viewsouce, etc won't help. ...
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Firefox 4 beta 6 not showing tooltips

I'm running Firefox 4 beta 6 under windows 7 and it's not showing tooltips (i.e. the ones from XKCD imgs) I've tried disabling every add-on and the enabling them one by one, I've checked the ...
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Windows 7 doesn't show text tooltips

I have Windows 7 installed but the problem is that all the tooltips have no content Even if I hover the mouse over items, the text of menu item remains hidden. I do not have any software installed ...
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Change Firefox timeout for TITLE popup?

Some websites use the TITLE tag to display relevant information in a tooltip popup when the cursor is on the relevant content. Problem: The tooltip disappears after a few seconds, and this is often ...
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Turn off tooltip in openoffice while scrolling?

When I scroll through an Openoffice.org Writer document I have a constant tooltip with page number and (when applicable) the bullet I might be hovering over. It frequently obstructs the text and is ...
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Lost infotips inside Microsoft Word 2007 on Windows XP

Normally, inside Word, I get a tooltip when hovering over change tracked text to show the author and date and time or change, however, something changed on my computer and I am not sure what because ...
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Word 2007: Tooltips showing footnotes no longer appear

On a normal installation of Word 2007, when you hover with the mouse over a footnote reference mark, a tooltip appears containing the text of the footnote. Lately, this has stopped happening on my ...
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How can I disable hints in Windows 7 or XP

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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Is there a Firefox addon to show unshortened URLs in a tooltip? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Looking for a tool to expand shortened urls I need a FF addon to do something like Unshorten and present the real URL in a tooltip. The addon should be FF3.6 compatible. ...
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How to change the length of time a tooltip stays open in Google Chrome?

So as many of you know XKCD uses the tooltip to provide some extra funny information about the last comic. However sometimes the tooltips are long and while reading them it will go away. I then have ...
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Why is the hover tooltip over the tray clock in Windows XP unreliable?

Sometimes it appears behind the taskbar. Sometimes it doesn't appear at all. Is there a way to fix it, or maybe a nice, unobtrusive way to see today's date?
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Why does my Windows XP taskbar sometimes hide tooltips?

Sometimes in Windows XP, the tooltip that will display when hovering over the clock in the system tray will decide to display behind the taskbar (rendering it unreadable and useless): Rebooting ...
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How can I make tooltips stop popping up in Finder list view?

When I put a Finder window into list view, and the file name is too long to fit into the column width, the Finder pops up a yellow tooltip with the full name. The delay is too short and it gets in the ...