lost tooltips

[Schemer]

Hello,

This doesn't happen all the time, and I have no idea what causes it: the
tooltips for the icons in the taskbar are appearing 'behind' the taskbar.
Auto-hide is not turned on, but even if it is, the icons are hidden by the
taskbar; all that's visible is the top edge.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

TIA.

 

[TaurArian [MVP]]

Courtesy of Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org

<Quote>

Not really. This is a known problem. Either reboot or open the Task
Manager...

Ctrl + Shift + Escape | Processes tab | Locate and highlight
explorer.exe | Right click explorer.exe | End Process | Answer
Yes | File | New Task (Run...) | Type: explorer | OK

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

</Quote>

Ref:
http://groups.google.co.uk/[email protected]


Also see this from Raymond Chen [MS]
http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/archive/2004/05/27/143042.aspx

Q: "why the taskbar or the tray or taskbar toolbars sometimes lose their
always on top setting and their tooltips show behind top level windows"

A: It's not that the taskbar loses always-on-top; it's that there are two
always-on-top windows, the tooltip and the taskbar, and they end up fighting
with each other.

More insight - from David Candy:
http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=tooltip+behind+author:David+author:candy

 

[Rock]

Hello,

This doesn't happen all the time, and I have no idea what causes it: the
tooltips for the icons in the taskbar are appearing 'behind' the taskbar.
Auto-hide is not turned on, but even if it is, the icons are hidden by the
taskbar; all that's visible is the top edge.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

TIA.

Another option is log off then back in. Sometimes that cures it -- till
the next time.