How to increase the time tooltips remain visible in Visual Studio

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Published on 2009-03-31T00:46:38Z Indexed on 2010/06/18 9:23 UTC
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By default, Visual Studio tooltips remain visible for 10 seconds and then they disappear. I find this time too short to read some of the longer tooltips. Is there a way to increase the time they remain visible?

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