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From: OnlyMe on 22 Mar 2010 00:00 items in the XPpro with SP3 taskbar RH with the clock. question is, why does the cursor when placed on an icon, the info is shown behind the taskbar,?
From: Brian A. on 22 Mar 2010 03:41 "OnlyMe" <xub100(a)beagle.com> wrote in message news:%23K5JKRXyKHA.5776(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl > items in the XPpro with SP3 taskbar RH with the clock. > question is, why does the cursor when placed on an icon, the info is > shown behind the taskbar,? That's an issue which has been around for some time and I don't think there is a permanent fix for it. To get the popup back on top: Right click on a blank area of the taskbar. Click "Properties" in the popup menu. Uncheck "Keep the taskbar on top of other windows". Click Apply > Ok. Repeat the steps above but this time recheck "Keep the taskbar on top of other windows". This is only a temporary fix, the next time you reboot the issue will more than likely present itself once again. -- Brian A.
From: OnlyMe on 22 Mar 2010 08:32 Thanks it worked OK "OnlyMe" <xub100(a)beagle.com> wrote in message news:%23K5JKRXyKHA.5776(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > items in the XPpro with SP3 taskbar RH with the clock. > question is, why does the cursor when placed on an icon, the info is > shown behind the taskbar,? >
From: Jose on 22 Mar 2010 10:56 On Mar 22, 8:32 am, "OnlyMe" <xub...(a)beagle.com> wrote: > Thanks it worked OK > > "OnlyMe" <xub...(a)beagle.com> wrote in message > > news:%23K5JKRXyKHA.5776(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > > > > > items in the XPpro with SP3 taskbar RH with the clock. > > question is, why does the cursor when placed on an icon, the info is > > shown behind the taskbar,? See the bottom if you want a "permanent" fix with some 3rd party software. It sounds like this well known issue with many different solutions but I have given up pursing a permanent fix since it does not bother me that often and I know how to get it working again - for a while: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912650 The article says tooltips, but I think I also have seen it with programs that are running minimized in the taskbar. I see it most with thing that are in the Quick Launch and Notification Areas. I don't care for the MS solution and I do not want to restart or login again just for this silly problem, so I do this which has always worked so far: Click Start, Run and in the box enter: tskill explorer Click OK and explorer will be killed and will restart automatically. This works okay for me, but I have heard that some icons for running programs that are in the Notification Area/System Tray may (to the left of the system time) also disappear but the applications that now have no icons in the Notification Area are still running. Reboot or relogin will fix it for sure too and there are a lot of "fixes" on the Wide Wide World of Web, but it always seems to come back. Sometime when I see it in the Quick Launch area, if I move the mouse to another icon in the QL area, it starts working again even on the one that was just broken - it is "fixed" for now without me having to do much. I am a chronic hibernator so I see it more often than people that actually shutdown and restart once in a while. I don't actually restart my system sometimes for days at a time. Here are some other ideas that don't always work for me. None of them worked for me as reliably as my tskill explorer idea: http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-xp-tips/tooltips-system-tray-not-showing-xp/ I like my idea because it is simple with minimal clicking and I know it works every time without trying things. If you are creative, make a new Quick Launch button that just restarts explorer and you can restart explorer anytime you feel like it with just a single click and no typing. Create a a desktop shortcut with a target line something like this: %windir%\system32\tskill.exe explorer Name it whatever you want and drag it down into the Quick Launch area. When your system is malfunctioing, single click the new Quick Launch time and explorer.exe will be restarted in one click. Neosmart Technologies has some download that has an executable that says it works and fixes it for good - as long as their program is running, and it seems to work just fine if you don't mind the small footprint of memory it consumes. http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=10
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