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Alien · 21-02-2007, 03:06

The way I sort it is to right click the taskbar & bring up the Properties window, then:

1. Turn off the Lock option, turn on Auto-hide, & turn off always on top, then Apply & wait for CPU useage to drop back to idle [I keep Task Manager loaded all the time, so I get the little CPU meter in the system tray].

2. if you normally have the taskbar more than 1 row tall it will probably have reverted back to just single row height. If this is the case, then move the mouse down to make the taskbar appear, then resize the taskbar to the height you want.

3. switch the Lock, Auto-hide, & always on top options back to their previous state & Apply.

That usually sorts it, though if XP's in a really stubborn mood [IOW if the tooltips still aren't working properly], then going through the above steps again usually fixes it.

21-02-2007, 03:06	#6
Alien Inactive Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: UK Services: VM Phone, V+, VM 10Mb Posts: 2,655	Re: Annoying taskbar problem. The way I sort it is to right click the taskbar & bring up the Properties window, then: 1. Turn off the Lock option, turn on Auto-hide, & turn off always on top, then Apply & wait for CPU useage to drop back to idle [I keep Task Manager loaded all the time, so I get the little CPU meter in the system tray]. 2. if you normally have the taskbar more than 1 row tall it will probably have reverted back to just single row height. If this is the case, then move the mouse down to make the taskbar appear, then resize the taskbar to the height you want. 3. switch the Lock, Auto-hide, & always on top options back to their previous state & Apply. That usually sorts it, though if XP's in a really stubborn mood [IOW if the tooltips still aren't working properly], then going through the above steps again usually fixes it.