Tool-tips pop-up balloons quirky

[Brett]

My tool-tip pop-up balloons don't always work right.

When I hover my mouse pointer over a program or folder,
the pop-up balloon often shows the description text of
the previous program I hovered over (yet the actual pop-
up balloon is the right size for the description of the
one I'm currently hovering over).

To see what it actually is, I have to pull the mouse
pointer away long enough for it to "reset", then put the
mouse pointer over it again a second time.

Is there a fix for this?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Jeremy]

I'm having the same problem on 2 workstations here. They
are identical hardware both Dell Precision 620's, running
XP pro SP2.

The tool tip "lags" by one tip. ie. you mouse over a
short cut to Explorer and you get no tip, then you mouse
over and IE shortcut and the tool tip says Explorer,
mouse over something else and the tooltip says IE. If you
mouse over the same thing twice it will display the right
tip the second time. It's like there is a buffer on the
tooltip text. This affects explorer (including Quick
Lanch bar, Taskbar and system tray) and the buttons in IE
(forwared, back, history, etc..).

Any help is appriciated

 

[Guest]

fix info is here

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;814135&Product=winxp