Comments on: How To Fix System Tray Tooltips Not Displaying in Windows XP

By: Hagis

Hagis — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:52:19 +0000

Thanks for the good program !

Its unbelievble that M$ couldnt do anything to this annoying bug
i get very angry every time it happens =P

So its great to be able to read the tooltips without the need to
minimize all windoews etc (ok not all tooltips are visible even then)

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:12:28 +0000

E2001, in Vista, however, that command doesn’t do the trick. Perhaps the class name is different now, I don’t know.

By: hikikomori-san

hikikomori-san — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:28:08 +0000

A solution much simpler and better than logging off then back on “but inspired by it” is to “switch users”. You won’t have to log off or install any applications, and it’s quick. To do this, press win+L, where win is the windows logo button (between ctrl and alt). This will bring you to the welcome screen but you will remain logged on (your apps won’t close, so you don’t have to wait for that transfer to finish or save your work or whatever). Once on the welcome screen, choose your user name again and viola. It worked for me, I hope it does for you.

By: E2001

E2001 — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:42:25 +0000

If you have nircmd on your system, you can do a quick command line fix:
“nircmd win settopmost class “tooltips_class32″ 1″.
NirCmd is a free multi-purpose command line utility, available here: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html.
Just extract all files to your system path (C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32)

By: afuk

afuk — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:52:26 +0000

I’m surprised that nobody mentioned this… since the problem is commonly caused by right clicking on the menu items, the simplest fastest way to revert the bug is… to right click on the menu item again!
So, right click on any menu in “all programs”, then press ALT, or ESC, or click outside the menu (whatever brings the focus out of the menu).

Anyway, this method works 100% for me.

By: Simplest Solution

Simplest Solution — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:10:58 +0000

Display the Windows Task Manager. End Task on explorer.exe. Click File, New Task (Run). Type explorer.exe and click OK. Problem solved.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:44:14 +0000

Just want to second Merry’s opinion here – I think NeoSmart Technologies is my new favorite freeware company

First it was Sysinternals, I think neosmart is on-par at least with their old work.

By: Merry

Merry — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:23:32 +0000

It’s only taking up 800KB here – well worth it though!

Thanks NeoSmart, your products are awesome — First EasyBCD and now this!

By: mawst

mawst — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:24:45 +0000

Great program. I was wondering if anyone else suffered from this annoying bug. It goes to show, the morons at M$ probably have horribly unorganized start menus and don’t sort by name. HA!

By: Mark Zeeler

Mark Zeeler — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 07:27:49 +0000

Thanks Geek!

The NeoSmart ToolTipFixer thingy did the trick!

It’s taking up 2.5MB of memory in the background, but well worth every byte – the bug is actually gone!

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!