Disabling Pop-Up Tool-Tips in Adobe Reader

Go to Edit > Preferences (Ctrl + K) and select the General category. Uncheck

show me messages when I launch Reader

And that should be it.

That should be it, and yet I still get the bubble that says:

Click on Tools to convert PDF documents to Word or Excel.

I found the answer here and I quote:

"If you scroll to the top right of this box, you should see a cross button. Once you click that, you should not see the message again."

That was it.