Windows 10: Hide or Show Pop-up Descriptions in Windows 10

How to: Hide or Show Pop-up Descriptions in Windows 10

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


Information 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








OPTION ONE [/i] 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)








OPTION TWO [/i] Hide or Show Pop-up Description for Folder and Desktop Items using a BAT file


Note The .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
NOTE: 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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Did some more testing, and unchecking show pop-up description for folder and desktop items seems to get rid of most of them.

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They still appear in the taskbar though.

 

[Windows 10] hide/prohibit install of specific Windows Update

Edit: Try "Show or hide updates" troubleshooter package first and let us know if it works for you.


Adapted from Preventing a certain Windows Update from installing on Windows 10 by Igal Tabachnik.

• Uninstall the problematical driver/update.
• Restart the computer, if necessary, and/or switch to an administrator account.
• Download Windows Update PowerShell Module and extract it to: %WINDIR%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules After doing so, you will have a %WINDIR%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\PSWindowsUpdate folder with a bunch of files.
• Start -> All Apps -> expand Windows PowerShell -> right-click on Windows PowerShell and select Run as Administrator. This is very important or you'll get errors in Windows PowerShell.
• Now you should see the PowerShell window and you'll have to enter a series of commands. First order of business is loading up PSWindowsUpdate. Note: You have to do this every time you restart PowerShell and want to use PSWindowsUpdate commands!
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• Enter Get-WUList. This command will take a little while to execute. It retrieves the list of all available updates on Windows Update. If you do not see the problematical update here, it is either no longer being offered or it is installed.
• Now you need to decide how to filter what update you want to hide. Here's some examples:
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  When you enter the above command, it will loop through all results it finds and ask whether or not you want to hide it. Make sure you only say "yes" to the one you want hidden and "no" to the rest.
• It will automatically show the updated results. Verify there is an "H" under the status of the ones you want hidden and not behind the rest. If it is correct, close out of PowerShell and return to your normal user account if necessary. Run Windows Update and the update should not show/install.

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Hey boys........... i have run the tools on my Windows 10 X64 Home........... on Hide i have obtain a very long list say to me i have to upgrade some hardware....... look:




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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
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• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

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Hi, suggestion in this thread on this topic here:
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