If you’re having trouble seeing system tray tooltips in Windows XP, there may be a few things you can do to fix the issue. First, make sure that your system is up to date with the latest security patches. If you don’t have them installed, you can get them from Microsoft’s website. Second, try disabling any unnecessary services that might be causing the tooltip issues. Finally, if all of these measures don’t work, you may need to take some other steps to troubleshoot the issue.
There’s not a known perfect solution to the problem. The way to make everything start working again is to do the following:
Right click the taskbar, choose properties, and uncheck the checkbox that says “Keep task bar on top of other windows”. Click Apply Check the checkbox again. Click Apply again.
This will temporarily make the system work right again, but you will have to repeat these steps if it happens in the future.
Update: Neosmart has created a small application that will fix this problem. The only thing is that the application will need to be running all the time, but if you have this problem often enough, you won’t care.
Download ToolTipFixer from NeoSmart
