This is the wrong forum for this thread, BUT.....

I will add that I have the same exact annoyance as the OP, but the problem is.... without those "Item Help" or what-not, how are you supposed to know what anything is, or does if you turn them all off? I mean I need at least the minimum amount of information about an item otherwise I just get an icon. What they needed was a delay.

"Don't show popup unless you've held the mouse over it for X seconds." and the X seconds is the setting you can modify (and indeed set it to 0 if you wish). That would make so much more sense, wouldn't it? If you set it to 3 seconds+ then you would probably never see another one ever again unless you _wanted_ to.