popups appear behind taskbar

[Guest]

Popups appear behind taskbar. What can one do bring popups infront of the
taskbar?

 

[dean-dean]

Right-click on your Taskbar, and choose Properties. Un-check "Keep the
taskbar on top of other windows". (Apply, OK).

 

[Richard Urban]

This has been a problem since Windows 98 and it still seems to be with us. I
have seen this a dozen or more times on my computer in the time I have been
using Vista. Will it ever get fixed? Maybe someday................

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

 

[DP]

I don't think that's the solution, dean-dean. As Richard Urban says in
another reply, the issue has been around sine earlier versions of windows.
For me, the problem has been intermittent in Vista. Sometimes it seems to be
fixed and sometimes an update seems to bring the problem back. I haven't
seen it in a while, though.
(Also had the problem with Win XP Pro x64.)

 

[dean-dean]

I guess I'm not clear. Are we talking about pop up windows? or tooltips
when you hover your mouse over a Notification Icon in the notification are
of the Taskbar? or balloon notifications when a system event occurs?
Apparently, I've misunderstood.

 

[DP]

I think tooltips is the correct term here.
For example, I have Opera in my quicklaunch section of the taskbar. If I
move my mouse pointer over that icon on the taskbar, a little tooltip-type
thing opens which says "Opera." It's working fine for me now. But in the
past, you could tell the tip had opened up because you could see the top of
it, but most of it was hidden by the taskbar.

 

[dean-dean]

Gotcha. Even my three guesses were off. Duh.
It's this problem:

Tooltips for some taskbar icons are hidden behind the taskbar on a Windows
XP-based computer:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=912650

Not that the KB's solution is that great. In Windows 98, if I recall
correctly, I dragged the Toolbar to the top of the screen, making it
temporarily a Mac, and then drug it back. (Acknowledging that some solutions
don't work for all computers, here.) I think on XP I Un-checked "Keep the
taskbar on top of other windows", Applied it, and then re-checked the box,
and Applied.

 

[Nick]

This problem is caused by a bug in Windows that causes the taskbar
tool-tips to lose their "topmost" window style and be covered up by
the taskbar.

Check out this web site for more information and a permanent fix:
http://www.acquaviva.us/tooltipmanager

Tool Tip Manager was written specifically to fix this annoying problem
by processing taskbar window messages and resetting the "topmost"
window style for tool-tips as needed, automatically. This program also
allows you to customize the appearance of the task bar tool tips (font
& color) and set the automatic hide timer value.

Regards,

Nick Acquaviva