Comments on: Tooltips hidden behind taskbar in XP

By: JustMe

JustMe — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:12:38 +0000

For me the problem occured by selecting my taskbar. It fixed itself by clicking an other window, but reappeared by clicking the taskbar again.8-) Windows is really a weird thing:P

By: /wam

/wam — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:45:23 +0000

tskill works, but it also removes some icons in the taskbar program tray area (where the clock is) … they just disappear! But the programs are still loaded in memory, as shown by taskmanager. But even taskmanager’s icon is now missing. The way to restore the icons is to use taskmanager … first use taskmanager to remove the program by highlighting it in the processes view and then clicking “end process” … and then manually restart the program and its icon will return to the task bar program area. This works for all program except for taskmanager itself, whose icon will only remain there if the taskmanager window is never closed. What a nuisance.

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 01:39:23 +0000

Huh! It worked on the first try! Go figure…

By: PENIX

PENIX — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:37:01 +0000

The sort trick didn’t work the first couple times I tried it. I did it a few more times, then it worked.

By: KLH

KLH — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:23:09 +0000

omg the “tskill explorer” in RUN really do the trick ! after everything ive tried (other than using any software) this is the best solution ever! Fast, safe, and effortless.

By: dan

dan — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:54:42 +0000

I concur. I started using nircmd and it’s been working like a charm without having to keep anything running.

By: james

james — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:11:59 +0000

Highly recommend Nircmd, as it doesnt require a running program, Thanx a lot author!

By: dan

dan — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:34:33 +0000

chaos: Thanks for the tip.

By: chaos

chaos — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:15:12 +0000

a 10kb utility which needs a 40mb+ runtime.. yeah that makes sense (at least to all dumb idiots who only can point and click).
for those who like to know whats going on ,on their system : get nircmd .

a small commandline based utility and use :

“nircmd win settopmost class “tooltips_class32″ 1″

this sets the windows class for tooltips to topmost,after that tooltips work like they should.

nircmd just sets this value ,and exits,no cpu/ram is further used !!! you can create a shortcut/.cmd file for this,so in case your tooltips are hiding,just use the shortcut and your done.

By: Keep It Simple Sweety

Keep It Simple Sweety — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:58:15 +0000

SIMPLEST SOLUTION
Click Start, Run
In the Open text box type: tskill explorer

Explorer will stop and restart. Problem solved. No need to run any software.