Hovering over Quick Launch icons

[Guest]

When I hover over the Quick Launch icons sometimes the description displays
but other times the description does not display. When they do not display
it appears the descriptions are hidden behind the background (Windows start
bar) with only the bottom edge visible. Is there a setting to prevent this?

 

[Marc Nutty]

I've had that now and again, dont bother me like lol

 

[Unk]

When I hover over the Quick Launch icons sometimes the description displays
but other times the description does not display. When they do not display
it appears the descriptions are hidden behind the background (Windows start
bar) with only the bottom edge visible. Is there a setting to prevent this?

Ralph Shumaker

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

Unofficial patch available to this issue:
http://www.erwin.ried.cl/?modo=visor&elemento=205
The download link is in the 3rd point of the article. It's in spanish, but is easy to find.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Tooltips behind the Taskbar

This is a known problem. A couple of ways to band-aid this. Reboot or
logoff and log back on. Hide the Taskbar then show it again.

Or kill explorer.exe and restart it.

Open Task Manager...
Ctrl + Shift + Escape | Processes tab | Right click explorer.exe |
Select: End Process | Click Yes to Warning | Click File |
Click New Task (Run...) | Type: explorer | Click OK

End Task on explorer.exe will make your Desktop and all programs disappear.
Restarting explorer will bring everything back.

Microsoft has come out with a KB article. Unfortunately the KB article does
not offer any real reason for the CAUSE, or a fix.

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

Here's another method, I mean band-aid.

Click Start
Click All Programs
Right-click ANY folder OR shortcut that appears ABOVE the taskbar
Click Sort by Name
from...
Tooltips behind taskbar - FIXED! (Or not)
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/mi...tvc=1&q=tooltip+behind&hl=en#8fcf735bff473a64

Somebody posted a program that they created that supposedly fixes the
problem for 9.95 USD. Not worth 10 bucks to me.

I am *NOT* recommending this program, but here ya are..

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

Tool Tip Manager specifically fixes this problem by looking at various
taskbar window messages and resetting the tooltip's "topmost" window
style automatically as needed.

Regards,

Nick Acquaviva]]
from...
Tooltips behind taskbar - FIXED!
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...nsubject:FIXED!&rnum=1&hl=en#3cb1244c1c472bd4


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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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