I would love a way to go back to the old versions of TestComplete where that object recognition hint stuff wasn't present. I have never seen this be helpful; it's only caused problems for us when...
I have similar issue. Once an object is not found, TC12 will launch the object recognition hint. Fine and dandy, except it takes a gigantic amount of time.
I can resolve the problem on my own. I don't want a hint. Specially, I don't want a hint that takes an hour or two to finish.
So an option to turn it off would be really nice.