Rafael
Sun Jun 05 18:58:32 CDT 2005
That works but then you lose the ability to keep the taskbar on-top, as
designed. Someone needs to exclude tooltips from this rule.
And yes, Harvest, I was thinking of a simple memory-resident app.
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Christian Hougardy wrote:
> Harvest <dpetroce@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>
>>Rafael is correct. I am not talking about any balloon pop up. It
>>is the tool tip window that appears when the mouse cursor is over one
>>of the task bar icons. In the case of the clock, there's the date &
>>time in the tool tip as an example. As far as programing those tool
>>tip window classes to be on top, I would think it would have to be a
>>memory resident program since the window to be affected is not always
>>available. A better solution would be to fix the flaw in the OS
>>don't you think?
>>"Harvest" <dpetroce@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
>>news:eONkyjdaFHA.3712@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>
>>>Searching the web, I know this has been a reoccurring problem with
>>>all versions of XP, but this problem where the tool tips for the
>>>stuff in the taskbar hiding beneath the taskbar so as to be not
>>>usable seems to be happening with regularity on my x64 installation.
>>>A log off and back on will fix the problem, but I sure would like to
>>>know what is causing this. Particularly troubling is the lost tool
>>>tip for the clock that also displays the date. Any ideas would
>>>certainly be appreciated. Thanks.
>
>
> Start / Settings / Task Bar and Start Menu / Keep the taskbar on top of
> other windows.
> If that one is on, the taskbar will stay on top of other windows, included
> balloon popups or any other help windows.
> Try to disable this function
>
> Cheers
>
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