Mouse Hover Time - Change

Brink · 08 Jul 2011

Edat7 said:

Hello. You suggest changing this value at one location. When I apply this tweak, I do a registry search for MouseHoverTime and find several matches and change all of them. Why do you not apply this tweak to all of the matches for MouseHoverTime in the registry?

Hello Edat, and welcome to Seven Forums.

It's only required to be changed at the location in the tutorial for it to be applied to the current user account.

Plus, the other MouseHoverTime locations may not be for the same thing.

ossjzb · 15 Nov 2011

Thank-you. ( im JUST upgrading from Vista to 7.. rofls )..

Brink · 15 Nov 2011

You're welcome ossjzb. I hope that you'll enjoy Windows 7. :)

o770 · 23 Apr 2012

Hello there. I'm looking for a way to delay the info/tooltips that display almost instantly on hovering of the cursor, like that for the applets in the Control Panel. I haven't looked for such items elsewhere but, according to our friend quoted below, these would be system items.
I was hoping that someone could verify this tutorial also works for such items and, if it does not, point me to the correct fix.

wguru said:

One thing I notice about tooltip notices, popups, whatever one should call them (for desktop icons, systems tray icons, and of course, start menu items, is that by default (even though I've unticked/deselected "Animations in the taskbar and Start Menu" and have yet to tweak the hover timing), I've noticed a difference in hover time for my desktop icons, etc., (about a full second) and the sys tray icons (which instantly display the tooltip 'pop-ups')...

brainout · 01 Feb 2013

wguru wrote: 'One thing I notice about tooltip notices, popups, whatever one should call them (for desktop icons, systems tray icons, and of course, start menu items, is that by default (even though I've unticked/deselected "Animations in the taskbar and Start Menu" and have yet to tweak the hover timing), I've noticed a difference in hover time for my desktop icons, etc., (about a full second) and the sys tray icons (which instantly display the tooltip 'pop-ups'). Maybe users might appreciate knowing why there are differences in hovered icon timings (between sys tray icons and all other hovered Windows items) eg; I suspect sys tray icons can't have their timing changed.'

Bingo. I did all the registry edits for Mouse Hover Time, etc. but none of that worked. What worked, was to change which toolbars house the icons. Desktop and QuickLaunch icons get almost immediate tooltips, whereas Taskbar and Notification tooltips are very slow to appear, no matter how you change the settings or edit the registry.

So how do you get the Quick Launch? Click here for a link in the forum where I first found it. Changed my life, oh boy.

So thank you, wguru!