Ok, I have just sprained my fore-arm, and broke my favorite mouse, and keyboard, by smashing them against my desk and wall. 

(All these violent emoticons, and not  a one with someone smashing his computer to bits.. ah well.. )

Is there someone-one please please please who can tell me how to disable these damn mouse-over pop-ups I keep getting from the darn task-bar at the bottom?   I can't take it anymore, and it's making me lose stuff, because i accidentally close apps that i'd been working in if my mouse shifts while i'm typing on my keyboard.

I've been using 7 for nigh on a year now, and the pop-ups are STILL driving me nuts.  At first i thought i somehow find a way to work around them, but i haven't.

The only alternative to disabling the damn popups seem to be not to use the task bar, but then what is the use of having a windows setup?  then i could just as well go back to using DOS.

Or I must go back to using an ancient slow pre 2000 mouse with 100 dpi, which I'll find unbearable.  I find mice slower than 1000 dpi unbearable to work with, it's like moving trough molasses.

Ugh, this is so furstratiiiinnnngggg, and going back to XP and re-installing everything in XP that I currently have in 7, is going to be a gargantuan job!  Why, oh why didn't they just make those pop-ups a user decision??

I wonder if anyone hasn't by now written a helper app through which one can disable those pop-ups?

Have you tried changing your theme? I think using a non-aero theme may solve your issues. You can changes themes by right clicking on your desktop>personalize.

Is there someone-one please please please who can tell me how to disable these damn mouse-over pop-ups I keep getting from the darn task-bar at the bottom? I can't take it anymore, and it's making me lose stuff, because i accidentally close apps that i'd been working in if my mouse shifts while i'm typing on my keyboard.

Mouse-over pop ups on the task bar? What?

Oops, sorry... I was in a bit of a temper when I wrote {stomped out on my keyboard} that post.       Will leave it up for entertainment. 

Thanks, Digitize.  The new folks sure are helpful.. 

Originally Posted By Traveller (28 JAN 2012 1:43am)

i accidentally close apps that i'd been working in if my mouse shifts while i'm typing on my keyboard.

  

I wonder if anyone hasn't by now written a helper app through which one can disable those pop-ups?

Odd, no matter how hard I type using various typing styles I cannot replicate a shifting mouse. You might try using a level to see if your mouse pad is perfectly horizontal.

As for those mouse-over pop-ups I couldn't help notice that you are not the first complainer, i.e. ask Microsoft.... The only time I find them to be useful is when I happen to have several web pages opened.

Originally Posted By CB (28 JAN 2012 10:24am)

Originally Posted By Traveller (28 JAN 2012 1:43am)

i accidentally close apps that i'd been working in if my mouse shifts while i'm typing on my keyboard.

  

I wonder if anyone hasn't by now written a helper app through which one can disable those pop-ups?

 

Odd, no matter how hard I type using various typing styles I cannot replicate a shifting mouse. You might try using a level to see if your mouse pad is perfectly horizontal.

 

As for those mouse-over pop-ups I couldn't help notice that you are not the first complainer, i.e. ask Microsoft....

 

 

Actually, I suppose that my situation is rather unique, in that I sit with my mouse on my lap these days; I find it's just so much easier on my trapezius muscles, especially when gaming. ..so that's where the shifting mouse comes from, which is no prob at all in an OS like XP.

I might have to to re-think how I organize my working space, though, and at least for periods when typing  (as opposed to gaming), put the mouse back next to the keyboard, or maybe on a seperate little table next to me.  Maybe I'll end up having to buy a new table and chair that I can pull the table closer to my body and lower down.

The only time I find them to be useful is when I happen to have several web pages opened.  

True, though they could have let you choose then, which bar you want where, in which case I'd put that bar on top, and top one at the bottom; or I could live with it on the side, even.

No, scrap all, that.  Digitize, you are a genius!  I love you!  I've switched to Windows Classic, and it works!  No more pop-ups!!! 

Whoo-hoo!  Just Adventure rocks, baby!      

Digitize is my new hero.  

EDIT:  Ok, I do miss having a list for my Firefox, (and the "look" is decidedly uglier,) but I still have a list (of open tabs/windows) for most of my other apps,including for IE9.  So I'm a happy chicken. 

Hot dam,

I've been experiencing higher than normal levels of pain in my right shoulder.

Now that I'm using my lap as a mouse pad I feel totally relaxed.

Trav is still my old hero.

Originally Posted By CB (28 JAN 2012 2:58pm)

Hot dam,

 

I've been experiencing higher than normal levels of pain in my right shoulder.

 

Now that I'm using my lap as a mouse pad I feel totally relaxed.

 

 

Trav is still my old hero.

   always, CB...  just for coming back, even. 

Yes, my physiotherapist explained why I was always getting those pains in the shoulders - the back and neck needs to be in a more   "straight "  position, and stretching forward for mouse and keyboard was causing too much tension and stretching in certain muscles. 

The shoulders need to be held 'back' more and not always hunched or pulled forward.

At first I put a hardcover book with a mousepad on top of it in my lap, but now I've found a solution much simpler- one of those A4 hardcover black "counter books".  The surface is amazingly like that of a mousepad. 

Well, actually I don't really need the book LOL. I'm surprised I haven't yet seen a mousepad fabricated from blue denim.

I love my new cordless too, esp. with its extra buttons.