Windows XP x64 Ed.: Taskbar Tooltip Bug

[Jim Laski]

In Windows XP x64 Edition, the tooltips displayed by the
taskbar (Start Button, running tasks, system notification
tray) do not have the proper z-order. The tooltips
display behind the taskbar, making them unusable. These
tooltips are important. Some examples are:

Checking the date by hovering over the time.
Checking other temperatures by hovering over the icon for
a program called SpeedFan.

This is one bug which I find very annoying. Microsoft,
please post a fix as soon as possible. I know you guys
have many, many, many more bugs on your hands, but at
least get the cosmetic bugs a look over. Also, the "New"
menu item on the desktop... When hovering over items in
the New sub menu, the foreground (text) color may be
black while it should be white. This bug is also in
Windows XP Home and Windows XP Professional 32-bit (SP2,
SP1, RTM).

Cosmetic changes like these are simple fixes. Please at
least look into these types of bugs because they make the
overall Windows UI more complete and usable.

 

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

Please repost to the correct newsgroup. We are no longer in beta.
The x64 builds of Windows are peer to peer supported in to
microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general (if your news server does not host it
yet then you can get it from msnews.microsoft.com)

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Mike
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[mikey]

bug has been around for a long time. not just in x-64.



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In Windows XP x64 Edition, the tooltips displayed by the
taskbar (Start Button, running tasks, system notification
tray) do not have the proper z-order. The tooltips
display behind the taskbar, making them unusable. These
tooltips are important. Some examples are:

Checking the date by hovering over the time.
Checking other temperatures by hovering over the icon for
a program called SpeedFan.

This is one bug which I find very annoying. Microsoft,
please post a fix as soon as possible. I know you guys
have many, many, many more bugs on your hands, but at
least get the cosmetic bugs a look over. Also, the "New"
menu item on the desktop... When hovering over items in
the New sub menu, the foreground (text) color may be
black while it should be white. This bug is also in
Windows XP Home and Windows XP Professional 32-bit (SP2,
SP1, RTM).

Cosmetic changes like these are simple fixes. Please at
least look into these types of bugs because they make the
overall Windows UI more complete and usable.

 

[Trix]

Is this fixed?

I searched google for this problem, and it brought me here. This is the exact problem I have, and it seems to only exist in x64! It is very annoying , and I would like to see a fix!