systray icon tooltips behind taskbar

Published 05-10-2006 8:01 PM | jokiz
once in a while, i notice that the tooltips of my icons are behind the taskbar which is rather annoying.  i finally did a google today and found this tip:

How To: Fix Tooltips hide behind taskbar
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# TSRh said on July 8, 2006 7:03 AM:

I did a fix, if you need can get it here:
"http://risc.nm.ru/tooltips fix.exe"

To run it you also need the VB6 runtime,
can be found on microsoft.com

Attention:
There could be some odd behavior with windows that was already opened while running the fix, so reopening them will help.

p.s.: The fix applies HWND_TOPMOST to all windows where "ToolTip" found in it's classname.

# Nick Acquaviva said on August 29, 2006 9:23 AM:

This problem annoyed me sufficiently that I wrote a program that will automatically *prevent* this condition from occuring. Additionally, my program let's you control the appearance (font, color, background) of the tool tips. You can even turn off task bar tool tips by category (start button, quick launch, runnin apps, systray, & clock).

Please visit http://www.acquaviva.us/tooltipmanager for more information.

Nick

# Ken Ng said on January 10, 2007 9:41 AM:

Hi, TSRh's method works and it's the best I've found so far. I've bloged(http://atpeaz.placidthoughts.com/index.php?/archives/153-Fixing-the-Windows-XP2003-Taskbar-Tooltip-bug.html) on how I used it with a shortcut key assigned to execute the fix. It's so good I've even mirrored the fix at the expense of my hosting bandwidth in case anyone wants it...

# Dan said on August 23, 2007 7:47 PM:

Thanks. Nick your program worked a treat. TSRh's link led me to some russian page.

# Peter said on October 9, 2007 11:53 AM:

Great tip Jokiz, I've noticed this issue a while back but didn't pay attention to it to much but just found this link and it worked like a charm.

# Ken Ng said on October 30, 2007 10:26 AM:

I've found the perfect solution! I posted about it here atpeaz.placidthoughts.com/index.php!.html) and it's basically a solution from NeoSmart Technologies. Works perfectly and installs and runs as a service! :D No more need to always run the utility everytime the problem crops up. Very cool.

# chaos said on February 6, 2008 8:16 AM:

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.