Is there a way to eliminate / delay this hovering text in the taskbar?

This hovering text is very annoying:



I understand the hovering text describes what your mouse pointer is actually hovering over; but if the pointer is locked into the hovering text field by the slightest accidental movement of the mouse, the actual click you make doesn't trigger the icons action, it triggers the selection within the next available actions of the icon.

The hovering text wouldn't be a problem if it had a delay of say five seconds; but the hovering text field shows up immediately as soon as the pointer hits the icon, making it near impossible to accurately use a right mouse click action to use the next available fields of actions produced by a right click.

I have come across this:

Go to Start > Run (Winkey+R) and type regedit, press enter
Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Advanced
Create a new DWORD (32-bit) value named ExtendedUIHoverTime
Double-click ExtendedUIHoverTime and select Decimal
Enter a value in milliseconds (1 s = 1000 ms) that will “delay” the popup
Restart computer

However, it doesn't work because the article was from 2014.

Any other ideas I can try?

Hide the safely remove icon - don't show it on the taskbar.





Rt click the icon to get more options.. quite stable, no time issues.

dalchina said:

Hide the safely remove icon - don't show it on the taskbar.

Thank you for your reply.

I should have been more specific - I don't want to see the hovering text for any of the taskbar icons in the lower right taskbar area. The text pops up and gets in the way on all the icons, not just the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon.

Thank you for your reply.

Then don't display all the icons whose text annoys you as far as you can. Settings.

dalchina said:

Thank you for your reply.

Then don't display all the icons whose text annoys you as far as you can. Settings.

There use to be a AutoHotKey code that would hide the hovering text so that you could display all your icons and not be annoyed by the hovering text field. That was the good ole days of Windows 7 though.

You could try those, but they do not seem to do anything on mine.

Code:

rem Determines in milliseconds the interval from the time the cursor is pointed at a menu until the menu items are displayed
reg add "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v "MenuShowDelay" /t REG_SZ /d "5000" /f

rem Mouse Hover Time in milliseconds before Pop-up Display
reg add "HKCU\Control Panel\Mouse" /v "MouseHoverTime" /t REG_SZ /d "5000" /f

TairikuOkami said:

You could try those, but they do not seem to do anything on mine.

Code:

rem Determines in milliseconds the interval from the time the cursor is pointed at a menu until the menu items are displayed
reg add "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v "MenuShowDelay" /t REG_SZ /d "5000" /f

rem Mouse Hover Time in milliseconds before Pop-up Display
reg add "HKCU\Control Panel\Mouse" /v "MouseHoverTime" /t REG_SZ /d "5000" /f

I tried them both with no luck either. Thanks for reminding me of them though.