Its a trivial thing but annoying nevertheless. Suppose you are trying to find some information from a particular folder and your every time your mouse hovers over an icon, Microsoft Windows starts teaching you about that application no matter how blunt! So here is a simple trick which will permanently switch the yellow tooltips off.

  1. Go to Start > Run, type regedit
  2. Scroll down HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Explorer > Advanced
  3. You will see an entry named ShowInfoTip. Click modify and set its dword value to 00000000
  4. Exit and reboot.