Pop-ups

[Gabriel]

How would I change the pop-ups to my own message. ie: When you run your cursor over Start it says 'click to begin'. Also can you put a display msg (popup or warning) after you click on say Start or Control Panel?

[reghakr]

Do a search in the registry for InfoTip
and change whatever you like.

You can even create your own ToolTips Under:
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Wi ndowsMediaPlayer]
for example
TitleBar "Reghakr" ;enables title on Windows Media Player6
MusicToolTip "Reghakr's Music" ;works on Windows Media Player6
RadioToolTip "Reghakr's Classic Rock" ;works on Windows Media Player6
ShowCaseToolTip "Reghakr's Media Guide" ;works on Windows Media Player6

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer \Player\Views\View0]
Title "Reghakr" ;enables provided by on Windows Media Player7

reghakr

[jstolz]

That works for most info-fields, but items in the quick-launch tray for Win98 use the shortcut name as the bubble help.

If you want to change the Start Menu bubble help, do the following:

1. Make a copy of Explorer.exe called Explorer.new and open Explorer.new with a hex editor.

To change Bubble help text:

2a. Search for hex 43006C00690063006B (i.e. "C l i c k" separated by null 00 characters). There's a few.
2b. Replace bubble help caption with whatever, nulling out as necessary.
2c. Go to step 4

To change "Start" button text

3a. Search for hex 530074006100720074 ("Start" separated by null characters).
3b. Replace Start button caption with up to 5 characters, nulling out as necessary.
3c. Go to step 4.

4. Boot to DOS, replace original Explorer.exe with the new Explorer.new.
5. Reboot.

[reghakr]

You can also edit strings that appear in the area when you choose View> as Web Page.

Go to c:\windows\web and look at *.htt files.
Be careful, you should have some javascript knowledge before you attempt this.

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