Windows 10: Taskbar Hover Text Stuck

My mouse will hover over an icon on the toolbar and when it leaves the toolbar, it still has the text hover above it when the mouse is nowhere near it. This has been going on for years with no answers anywhere.
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Is there a way to eliminate / delay this hovering text in the taskbar?

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.

 

Is there a way to eliminate / delay this hovering text in 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.

 

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?