Saturday, April 15, 2006

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Jerry Ed

The "tooltip" (a small box with Saturday, April 15, 2006)
is supposed to appear when the mouse pointer hovers
over the time (far right on the task bar).
It works one time after a boot, then I have to
double-click it and get the Date and Time Properties
before it will work one time again.
Sometimes it will work several times.
It doesn't seem to matter if I have a window
opened or not.
(hoping this is not sign of major problems developing)
Thanks for any response.
 
I may be opening behind the toolbar. A known "bug" since Windows XP was
released and, apparently, not worthy of attention by Microsoft. There are
other problems that take precedence.


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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
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

In
 
This problem is caused by a bug in Windows that causes the taskbar
tool-tips to lose their "topmost" window style and be covered up by the
taskbar.

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

Tool Tip Manager was written specifically to fix this annoying problem
by processing taskbar window messages and resetting the "topmost"
window style for tool-tips as needed, automatically.

Regards,

Nick Acquaviva
 
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