Comments on: Tooltips hidden behind taskbar in XP

By: ToolTipFixer

ToolTipFixer — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:21:20 +0000

There’s absolutely no need for any comments after #25 by Marc Alex, because the ToolTipFixer 2.0 is all you need to patch the bug in XP.
http://neosmart.net/ToolTipFixer/

Ok, so it stays running on your PC only using 1,176 KB of memory, and is basically idle after it does it’s job whenever the tooltips go crazy.

If you can’t spare <2MB RAM and ~0% CPU power and want to manually click this, that, run tskill, nircmd, etc etc, keep on clicking. Have fun with that.

I'll never have to touch anything again. THANKS!!!

By: Ori

Ori — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:56:26 +0000

The Tip to kill the explorer.exe was the one that worked for me.Thanks Zoltan.

By: Brotuulaan

Brotuulaan — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 06:27:13 +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.”

Thanks to Keep It Simple Sweety, response #31! This was the first fix that I found works on this list, minus downloading a prgram. If I can fix it without a download, that’s the way to do it. MS has too many little problems to fix them all that way!

Also, I couldn’t get the problem to come back by right-clicking anywhere in the Start Menu or anything else. My icons in the task tray didn’t disappear either.

I’m running XP SP3.

By: Forrest

Forrest — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:32:55 +0000

Just tried the tool tip fix for XP and the day date popup has returned and I can see it! Great!

By: Suresh

Suresh — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:07:39 +0000

tooltipsfixer tool really works for me. thanks to you.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:47:00 +0000

You’re welcome.

By: C

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:01:32 +0000

mega thanks

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 23:55:13 +0000

@janius nircmd works great for me on XP SP3.

By: janius

janius — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 20:16:22 +0000

nircmd does not work yet. Neither other fixes suggested. Probably the new updates from Microsoft breaks this possibility. I have Xp SP2 with the majority of critical and essential updates and hotfixes (installed when possible with the parameters /B:SP2QFE)

By: Devon

Devon — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:57:58 +0000

I just had this problem again, and tried going to programs, right-clicking to bring up menu, then clicking on desktop to get out of start menu. I did that twice, without sorting, and it worked!

So, I doubt you actually have to sort.

(In case you have it sorted by another method, like by the order installed, this could save you some hassle.)