XP help please.

[m3evo2]

My laptop died recently so I had to re-install XP etc. Since the install everytime my mouse pointer floats over an icon I can see a label describing the action or my mouse pointer changes to a hand when over a link or a text bar when ovr text etc. It's realy annoying me as I have looked everywhere and can't find where to turn it off. I have checked tooltips and the like. I'm sure it wasn't like this prior to the re-build.

Any ideas PH massive please.

[Trooper2]

Try resetting your mouse properties in Control Panel> Printers and Other Hardware> Mouse>
Pointers 'Tab'> Scheme.

You may have had a particular scheme selected before you did the re-install and now it's reverted to the default.