Article:		An Inside Look at XP SP2
Subject:		Hidden tooltips for taskbar/icontray
Date:		2004-05-07 06:40:37
From:		davidfrahm
Does anybody know if they fixed the issues where the tooltips for items in the taskbar and icontray display BEHIND the taskbar (which means you can't see them!)?

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• Hidden tooltips for taskbar/icontray
  2007-08-20 23:20:19  mvd [View]
  
  
  Free and open source tool tip fixer can be found here.
  
  http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/TTF/ToolTipFixer+Home
  
  This is the best fix out there. It fixes it and doesnt give you any "extras" you dont need. Best of all its free.

• Hidden tooltips for taskbar/icontray
  2007-08-20 23:10:48  mvd [View]
  
  
  Free and open source tool tip fixer can be found here.
  
  http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/TTF/ToolTipFixer+Home
  
  Download link here.
  http://neosmart.net/downloads/software/ToolTipFixer/ToolTipFixer%201.0.1.exe
  
  This is the best fix out there. It fixes it and doesnt give you any "extras" you dont need. Best of all its free.

• Hidden tooltips for taskbar/icontray
  2007-05-15 10:33:00  Nick_Acquaviva [View]
  
  
  This problem is caused by a bug in Windows that causes the taskbar tool-tips to lose their "topmost" window style and be covered up by the taskbar. Microsoft has acknowledged this problem exists (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912650), but has not yet fixed it.
  
  Check out this web site for more information and a permanent fix:
  http://www.acquaviva.us/tooltipmanager
  
  Tool Tip Manager was written specifically to fix this annoying problem by processing taskbar window messages and resetting the "topmost" window style for tool-tips as needed, automatically. This program also allows you to customize the appearance of the task bar tool tips (font & color) and set the automatic hide timer value.
  
  Regards,
  
  Nick Acquaviva
• Hidden tooltips for taskbar/icontray
  2007-08-20 23:04:04  mvd [View]
  
  
  Free and open source tool tip fixer can be found here.
  
  http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/TTF/ToolTipFixer+Home
  
  Download link here.
  http://neosmart.net/downloads/software/ToolTipFixer/ToolTipFixer%201.0.1.exe
  
  This is the best fix out there. It fixes it and doesnt give you any "extras" you dont need. Best of all its free.
• Hidden tooltips for taskbar/icontray
  2007-08-20 23:02:45  mvd [View]
  
  
  Free and open source tool tip fixer can be found here.
  
  http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/TTF/ToolTipFixer+Home
  
  Download link here.
  http://neosmart.net/downloads/software/ToolTipFixer/ToolTipFixer%201.0.1.exe
  
  This is the best fix out there. It fixes it and doesnt give you any "extras" you dont need. Best of all its free.

• Hidden tooltips for taskbar/icontray
  2006-07-08 07:26:04  TSRh [View]
  
  
  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.
• Hidden tooltips for taskbar/icontray
  2007-05-08 12:34:45  kangfucius [View]
  
  
  Here's a version in C#:
  
  
  // Program: TopmostToolTips
  // Bring tooltip windows to the front (top most) - workaround for the Windows bug
  // that causes tooltips to be hidden behind the Windows taskbar
  //
  // Copyright (C) kangfucius, 2007
  //
  using System;
  using System.Diagnostics;
  using System.Text;
  using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
  
  public delegate bool CallBackPtr(int hWnd, uint lParam);
  
  // TopmostToolTips
  //
  namespace TTT
  {
  class Program
  {
  // Win32 constants
  private const Int32 HWND_TOPMOST = -1;
  private const uint SWP_NOSIZE = 0x0001;
  private const uint SWP_NOMOVE = 0x0002;
  
  private static string CLASS_FILTER = "tooltips_class32";
  
  [DllImport("user32.dll")]
  public static extern int EnumWindows(CallBackPtr callPtr, uint lParam);
  
  [DllImport("user32.dll")]
  public static extern int GetClassName(int hWnd, StringBuilder className, int nMaxCount);
  
  [DllImport("user32.dll")]
  public static extern int SetWindowPos(int hWnd, int hWnndInsertAfter, int X, int Y, int cx, int cy, uint uFlags);
  
  public static bool TopmostToolTips(int hWnd, uint lParam)
  {
  StringBuilder sbClassName = new StringBuilder(256);
  GetClassName(hWnd, sbClassName, sbClassName.Capacity);
  
  Debug.WriteLine("hWnd=" + hWnd + " class=" + sbClassName.ToString());
  if (CLASS_FILTER.Equals(sbClassName.ToString()))
  {
  SetWindowPos(hWnd, HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE);
  }
  
  return true;
  }
  
  static void Main(string[] args)
  {
  Console.WriteLine("TTT - set Tool Tip windows in Top-most position");
  Console.WriteLine("Copyright kangfucius 2007. All rights reserved");
  CallBackPtr callback = new CallBackPtr(Program.TopmostToolTips);
  Program.EnumWindows(callback, 0);
  
  //Console.ReadKey(true);
  }
  }
  }
  

• Hidden tooltips for taskbar/icontray
  2004-06-11 19:58:57  Space_Lizard [View]
  
  
  I have been playing around with SP2 for about a week now and it still seems to be behind the taskbar, BUT if you click on the taskbar first then wait for the tool tips they will be visable. ;)
• Hidden tooltips for taskbar/icontray
  2006-11-14 12:07:52  Nick_Acquaviva [View]
  
  
  This problem is caused by a bug in Windows that causes the taskbar tool-tips to lose their "topmost" window style and be covered up by the taskbar. Microsoft has acknowledged this problem exists, but has not yet fixed it (it's been around for at least 3 years).
  
  Check out this web site for more information and a fix:
  http://www.acquaviva.us/tooltipmanager
  
  Tool Tip Manager was written specifically to fix this annoying problem by processing taskbar window messages and resetting the "topmost" window style for tool-tips as needed, automatically. This program also allows you to customize the appearance of the task bar tool tips (font & color) and set the automatic hide timer value.
  
  Regards,
  
  Nick Acquaviva