Status bar hover tips are hiding

[Guest]

Sorry for the cross post. Also in XP Help and Support but no response...

Not sure what triggers this but it happens occassionally throught the day and
seems to self recover. Again, unsure what starts/ stops the phenomenon.

Normally if you hover the mouse pointer over an item on the status bar
(Clock for example) a pop-up tool tip box will appear with useful information
(day and date for example). Issue is that sometimes the pop-up tip appears
in front of the status bar where I can actually see it, sometimes behind! the
status bar where I can only see the upper edge of it, and sometimes not at
all.

Known issue? Any ideas why? What to do to fix? Thanks in advance.
Steve C.

 

[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

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Guest]

Thanks Wes!
Not only acknowledged the problem but gave good workaround too.
Best regards,
Steve C.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Hi Steve,

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

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

In

 

[Guest]

Thanks again Wes! I'll check it out.
BR,
Steve C.

Hi Steve,

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

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

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

Thanks Wes!
Not only acknowledged the problem but gave good workaround too.
Best regards,
Steve C.