Removal of visual clutter on PC

Milarky

Is there any way of getting rid of those gawd-awful 'speech bubbles' that appear whenever you hover over items in file lists or even when coming to MSE.com forums? There must be a settings option to switch them off surely?

Thanks

sleep2much

Dunno, I've never thought about it, I know they are put onto websites so that those people who cannot see well, can get the Alt text larger or read back to them by the computer voice thingy so they know what they are clicking.....just annoying I guess

foreversomeday

They're called tooltips.

You can do it but it involves editing the registry - if you get this wrong you can seriously mess up your computer, so think seriously about exactly how annoying they are first!

http://www.flexbeta.net/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t4078.html

Links to 3 common methods and also some discussion.

isofa

If you use Firefox, you won't get them on the Forums here... Well I don't anyway...