invisible tooltips on icons in systray

Hi,

has anyone noticed such a strange thing with tooltips on programs' icons in the system tray of Win XP Pro? It happens quite often that they are covered by the taskbar.

Is it a bug in Win XP or have I to switch anything on or off anywhere?

Ralfska

 

ralfska I am having the same problem with Home Edition, and have been trying to find out where the tooltips are enabled and disabled, because mine sometimes hide behind the taskbar and sometimes they stop working alltogether until i reboot! Maybe someone will see this and know.

 

I'm pretty sure now it must be a bug of Win XP, both Home and Pro. I thought there would be patches available on the Microsoft Home Page for this invisible tooltips in the systray, downloaded all of them, installed, but it didn't help. I've never seen this issue in Win2k or Millennium. In rare cases it can be fixed by clicking around on the taskbar and the icons in the systray, but the best "solution" is to reboot XP which isn't too funny.

 

Try...http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307499

Note:

I got this from the "Help and Support Center" which is built into WinXP which you can access from the "Start Menu ".

I'm just giving you the link to the actual page from MS...