tooltips hide behind taskbar?

[Cynthia G]

Lately, when ever I glide over the quick launch bar on the taskbar (I
have it along the top of a two level taskbar) the tooltips that pop up
telling me the name of the program hides behind the taskbar itself.
Sometimes I can see a sliver of the top of the beige box, sometimes it's
completely hidden. Also the tooltips for the icons in the notification
area are hidden in the same way.

If I have a maximized window open, the tip is hidden completely hidden
behind both the taskbar and the window.

I have balloon tips turned off in tweakUI, but I did that a long time
ago and this is recent.

I know most of the icons on sight, but some of them are pretty obscure
and used rarely - so a reminder of what they are without right click,
properties is nice. Also, sometimes I can find out the version I have
of a program by looking at the tip without opening the program.

Any ideas?

Apologies if this has been asked before. I did a quick look for hidden
tool tips on google groups, but nothing looked promising. And I got no
hits of any use in the MS KB. And this is my first visit to this group.

TIA.

 

[Jeff N.]

See:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307499&Product=winxp

 

[Cynthia G]

See:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307499&Product=winxp

Thank you very much. I can see from the title on this page why my
search for ToolTips Hidden didn't come up with anything.

 

[Jeff N.]

From experience with the Knowledge Base searches, you can't be too specific.
Plus I knew the article was there for I had seen it before. Took me a few
tries to come up with it myself!