How to keep your XP tooltips working right.
Straight_Man
Geeky, in my own wayNaples, FL Icrontian
The tooltip actions are synced to the mouse and video parameters.
If your mouse gets set to a faster accelleration or you change the mouse support drivers or the frequency of the pulses from mouse to Windows, you can get an out of sync problem, Windows will have set the tooltips to a slower rate, and you will get cutoff tooltips in your active icon area for running things (by the clock and date(I have my taskabr set to five icons high and it autohides, both time and date show up) over to right side of taskbar). When I change any of the things listed above, except for a new driver install, I get to log out as user and login again to get the mouse parms and the tooltip actions resynced. This works with XP Pro for all releases of that subversion.
If I change mouse drivers, I get to restart XP to have the tooltips act right.
If the video is out of sync with monitor or with the video adapter, you can get tooltips that are frankly wonky. If you set your video changes with an existing driver that is the right driver, you can get the tooltips not working until you log out and log in again. Changing video modes can toss your mouse positioning off versus the little closely spaced icons in the active startup programs area of the taskbar, and if you accellerate the video the tooltips will lag behind until you log off and log on again or you restart the computer.
I am going to get seemingly hypertechnical for a second here, need to explain static versus dynamic keys with user settings. DYN_DATA sits in RAM, and the static and DYN-DATA are not always integrated until you either log a user off who changed his\her settings and log back in, or you restart the computer.
Tooltip actions and rates of tooltip response are static per session of user. The video and the mouse parms can be largely DYN_DATA and sit in RAM, until user is logged out and then back in or computer is restarted with Windows options, or shut down and restarted with power switch. If you power off or shut down computer, some of the DYN-DATA keys never get committed, or written into the registry and converted to static keys. Then you can lose your settings you did live and XP will use the previous settings.
So, you need to get the tooltip and the mouse and video settings synced with each other to have good tooltips, and a complete shutdown of Windows will not always work, but many times a simple user logoff and login will fix the cutoff or "slow" resizing of the length of the tooltip mini-pane. symptoms of this are black next to wrong info in tooltip, or a cutoff part of the right info in a tooltip. 90% of the time, I can change the tooltip malf into a tooltip working situation with a simple logoff and login. The other 10% I have changed what driver is used, and need to restart Windows XP. I played a lot with drivers and video settings and mouse settigns and drivers, to understand this with XP, and used knowledge of what DYN-DATA is to understand what was happening.
Hope knowing why it happens helps some, and how to fix.
John D.
If your mouse gets set to a faster accelleration or you change the mouse support drivers or the frequency of the pulses from mouse to Windows, you can get an out of sync problem, Windows will have set the tooltips to a slower rate, and you will get cutoff tooltips in your active icon area for running things (by the clock and date(I have my taskabr set to five icons high and it autohides, both time and date show up) over to right side of taskbar). When I change any of the things listed above, except for a new driver install, I get to log out as user and login again to get the mouse parms and the tooltip actions resynced. This works with XP Pro for all releases of that subversion.
If I change mouse drivers, I get to restart XP to have the tooltips act right.
If the video is out of sync with monitor or with the video adapter, you can get tooltips that are frankly wonky. If you set your video changes with an existing driver that is the right driver, you can get the tooltips not working until you log out and log in again. Changing video modes can toss your mouse positioning off versus the little closely spaced icons in the active startup programs area of the taskbar, and if you accellerate the video the tooltips will lag behind until you log off and log on again or you restart the computer.
I am going to get seemingly hypertechnical for a second here, need to explain static versus dynamic keys with user settings. DYN_DATA sits in RAM, and the static and DYN-DATA are not always integrated until you either log a user off who changed his\her settings and log back in, or you restart the computer.
Tooltip actions and rates of tooltip response are static per session of user. The video and the mouse parms can be largely DYN_DATA and sit in RAM, until user is logged out and then back in or computer is restarted with Windows options, or shut down and restarted with power switch. If you power off or shut down computer, some of the DYN-DATA keys never get committed, or written into the registry and converted to static keys. Then you can lose your settings you did live and XP will use the previous settings.
So, you need to get the tooltip and the mouse and video settings synced with each other to have good tooltips, and a complete shutdown of Windows will not always work, but many times a simple user logoff and login will fix the cutoff or "slow" resizing of the length of the tooltip mini-pane. symptoms of this are black next to wrong info in tooltip, or a cutoff part of the right info in a tooltip. 90% of the time, I can change the tooltip malf into a tooltip working situation with a simple logoff and login. The other 10% I have changed what driver is used, and need to restart Windows XP. I played a lot with drivers and video settings and mouse settigns and drivers, to understand this with XP, and used knowledge of what DYN-DATA is to understand what was happening.
Hope knowing why it happens helps some, and how to fix.
John D.
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