System Tray Balloons are Behind Taskbar

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rubbish84 · #1 Post by **rubbish84** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:14 pm

I have recently purchased a Thinkpad T61 and I have downgraded to windows XP (at least for now) since I was finding vista far too slow.
I'm finding that very often the system tray balloons are getting stuck behind the taskbar. I know that this is a known glitch in windows XP but I'm finding it is happening far more frequently than on any of my other XP systems.

Does anyone know why this would be happening and how I would go about fixing it?

Any help would be appreciated.

#2 Post by **rkawakami** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:36 pm

Googling around I found this:

http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/200 ... d-taskbar/
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-re ... 31320.html
http://dan.hersam.com/2006/09/18/toolti ... bar-in-xp/

And searching in the forums:
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=40485

aaa · #3 Post by **aaa** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:51 pm

I do it this way, as mentioned in one of the linked threads:

WDGC wrote:I've found the following workaround work for me:

(In Taskbar and Start Menu Properties)

untick 'Keep the taskbar on top of other windows', Apply, OK.

(bring up Taskbar and Start Menu Properties again)

tick 'Keep the taskbar on top of other windows', Apply, OK.

Agotthelf · #4 Post by **Agotthelf** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 4:09 pm

Jipiii it works.

WDGC wrote:
I've found the following workaround work for me:

(In Taskbar and Start Menu Properties)

untick 'Keep the taskbar on top of other windows', Apply, OK.

(bring up Taskbar and Start Menu Properties again)

tick 'Keep the taskbar on top of other windows', Apply, OK.

Wonderful!

ThinkPad R · #5 Post by **ThinkPad R** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 2:14 pm

wow that's pretty cool - i never could figure that otu all my life even though i had that problem often.

rubbish84 · #6 Post by **rubbish84** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:00 pm

I have just had the opportunity to try that work around and unfortunately it doesn't work for me.

Does anyone else have any other ideas?

Superego · #7 Post by **Superego** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:18 pm

You may want to have a look at this.
Worked for me.

fredstev · #8 Post by **fredstev** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:28 pm

Superego wrote:You may want to have a look at this.
Worked for me.

Superego's method worked great for me. Tooltipfixer is run as a service and appears to use 5,668K when running. I've tried other methods in the past, and none of them worked reliably 100% of the time.

rubbish84 · #9 Post by **rubbish84** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:11 am

Thanks!!
I tried that program and so far so good.

System Tray Balloons are Behind Taskbar

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