A windows taskbar oddity....how can I change this?

HeartburnHarry · 17 Jan 2006 at 14:29

You see the balloon tips?
Aha! I hear you cry, tick the box entitled "Keep Taskbar ontop of other windows". Sorry, it is already. (And it does stay on top of other windows, it's just the balloon tips don't seem to want to appear properly).

Any ideas?

NathanE · 17 Jan 2006 at 14:32

It's a bug. Luckily it's pretty rare... Hopefully it'll be fixed in Vista.

Exentia · 17 Jan 2006 at 14:33

right click the desktop click refresh and see if that gets rid of it, dont know how to fix it completely though.

HeartburnHarry · 17 Jan 2006 at 14:38

Thanks. I think I had this problem with XP before, but IIRC it went away, either with unlocking the taskbar, changing the "stay on top" option, locking, then reversing the procedure. I can't remember.

However, this is x64 (which I would assume is heavily based on XP anyway).

It's just with some balloon tips, like my torrent client or FTP client, I use them for useful information to save me opening the program, and it's quite annoying.

Edit : I've just tried unticking "Keep taskbar ontop of other windows", and funnily enough, the popups now appear OVER the taskbar (which I require), but UNDER windows.....

Where's Bill went you want to give someone an angry slap?

SiriusB · 17 Jan 2006 at 15:55

I get the same problem. Doesn't bother me too much as it comes and it goes.

SiriusB