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September 11, 2020
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Is there a way to disable tool tips (balloon popups) that appear over every toolbar item?

  • September 11, 2020
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I just started using Bridge in Windows 10 and it's FANTASTIC, however, every time I hover my cursor over any sort of control, a little bubble pops up telling me what that control does. Normally, this wouldn't bother me as it would usually not appear for a few seconds, but in Bridge, the popup tool tips appear instantly for me. Even opening preferences and putting my cursor on any of the preference tabs just display a popup with the name of the tab. I can read the tab, why do I need another popup telling me what I'm already looking at? I'm running Bridge version 10.1. 

 

I've already contacted adobe support, but they weren't very helpful. They just said it appears to be working fine.

 

For what it's worth, I also have Bridge installed on my Mac and the tool tips take a few seconds or so before they will popup. This is the way I would prefer the windows version to act.

 

Please help? I'm not usually a Windows savvy person, but I figured maybe there are some smarter people out there that might know a registry edit or something to get these things to go away.

 

PS: It also happens in the RAW plugin within Bridge, but the RAW plugin in Photoshop is unaffected.

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jbm007
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 11, 2020

No

Its "as designed" feature in the windows version of Bridge.

Would be nice if they acted the same.

The refresh rate of the OS GPU determines the speed of the tool tip response usually. 

 

Jayson AAuthor
Participant
September 11, 2020

Thank you for your answer! Has it always been like this, or is this unique to version 10.1?

jbm007
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 11, 2020

Was introduced two years ago.

This is the first release where it actually works on a regular basis.

There should be a way of turning it off.