Hi,
Turn off some of these from Control Panel> Folder Options> View> uncheck
"Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items.

At http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm the script on line 11 (left
side) may disable additional balloons/pop-ups.

On the webpages, what's the message at (for example) Yahoo?
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Don
[MS MVP- IE]

"MarkC" <None@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> I do not know how to explain it, and not sure where the source is making
> this happen. IE7, or XP Pro, but have to start somewhere.
>
> When I am using Yahoo or a few other search engines, when I hover the
mouse
> over the search field to type, a short pop assist message flashes. It is
> very annoying and like to know how to turn that off. Some websites like
MSN
> doesn't have that showing up.
>
> Hmmm, I just now noticed when I was typing the subject for this news post
> using Outlook Express, the assist popup came on again, it says "type the
> subject for this message". Now I am really confused what activates this.
>
> Also what is it referred to as.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark