How to Hide or Show Pop-up Description for Folder and Desktop Items in Windows 10


When you hover over a file, folder, drive, or desktop items in Windows, a pop-up description (infotip) will show displaying basic property details (metadata) of the item such as Date created, Size, Folders and Files a folder contains, etc...

This tutorial will show you how to hide or show pop-up descriptions for folder and desktop items for your account in Windows 10.


Contents

  • Option One: Hide or Show Pop-up Description for Folder and Desktop Items using Folder Options
  • Option Two: Hide or Show Pop-up Description for Folder and Desktop Items using a BAT file



EXAMPLE: Pop-up description (infotip) of a folder
Hide or Show Pop-up Descriptions in Windows 10-pop-up_description.jpg





OPTION ONE

Hide or Show Pop-up Description for Folder and Desktop Items using Folder Options


1 Open Folder Options.

2 Click/tap on the View tab, check (default) or uncheck Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items in "Advanced settings" for what you want, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)

Hide or Show Pop-up Descriptions in Windows 10-show_pop-up_desciptions_folder_options.png






OPTION TWO

Hide or Show Pop-up Description for Folder and Desktop Items using a BAT file


The downloadable .bat files below will modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.

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

ShowInfoTip DWORD

0 = Hide
1 = Show


1 Do step 2 (hide) or step 3 (show) below for what you would like to do.


2 To Hide Pop-up Description for Folder and Desktop Items

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the BAT file below, and go to step 4 below.

Hide_pop-up_descriptions_for_folder_and_desktop_items.bat

Download


3 To Show Pop-up Description for Folder and Desktop Items

This is the default setting.

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the BAT file below, and go to step 4 below.

Show_pop-up_descriptions_for_folder_and_desktop_items.bat

Download


4 Save the .bat file to your desktop.

5 Unblock the .bat file.

6 Run the .bat file.

7 You will now notice your screen flicker and a command prompt quickly open and close as explorer is restarted to apply the registry changes.

8 When finished, you can delete the downloaded .bat file if you like.


That's it,
Shawn


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