One solution to systray tooltips behind taskbar problem

From: Kevin Mote (kevin.mote_at_pnl.gov)
Date: 02/16/04 

Date: 16 Feb 2004 08:58:13 -0800

(I have never posted to this group before, but I trust this is
on-topic).

A number of people in this newsgroup have described the problem of
systray tooltips getting partially hidden behind the taskbar. I've had
the problem recently and a quick Usenet search uncovered no solutions.
(Apparently MS has been unable to reproduce the problem, so they have
been unable to resolve it.)
The oft-suggested method of locking and unlocking the taskbar doesn't
work.

As recently as last December it was still unresolved. (Cf. thread:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&threadm=ObCVphKwDHA.2352%40TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl&rnum=6&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26safe%3Doff%26q%3Dxp%2Btray%2Btooltips%2Bbehind%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwg)

While I have not been able to reproduce it on command, I WAS able to
resolve the problem, at least on my system. Perhaps this will work for
others as well:

1. Open "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties" dialog. (Right-click on
Start button, select "Properties")

2. Select Taskbar tab.

3. After noting which features were selected, I UN-selected all of
them and clicked "Apply."

4. I then tested the systray and the tooltips were once again
appearing on top as desired.

5. Finally I re-selected the features in the Taskbar Properties window
that I had deselected in step 3.

(Of course, step 3 could probably be refined. If anyone attempts to
try this suggestion, perhaps you could try de-selecting each feature
one at a time and hopefully pinpoint the problem more specifically.)

Hope this helps.
Kevin Mote
Kevin.Mote@pnl.gov