I hope I can be of some help...
Often times Windows XP (and Vista) will refuse to hide because it
mistakenly believes there is still a tooltip balloon open. (I see this a
lot myself with APC's Powerchute Personal Edition.) Unfortunately the
only way to get your taskbar to properly hide again (and I don't mean
uncheck the "Keep the taskbar ontop of other widows" option for a quick
fix) is to restart the machine so that Windows resets the tooltip
balloon status. What a pain!
Thankfully through my inability to let it go and hatred for this
problem I have written a file that will fix this! (Works great on my
Vista machine!) All the program does is overwrite the phantom tooltip
balloon and then clear the tooltip balloon and Tahdah!
The tooltip will stay up for 10 seconds so that you can read the info
on it (just telling you what it does and how you can contact me if you
have any problems). You can close this tooltip balloon like any other by
clicking on it, or if you mouse over the program tray icon it will close
itself instantly.
You can find my "Taskbar SlapperŪ" hosted by FileFactory at the
following address:
http://www.filefactory.com/file/ag93...ar_Slapper_exe
If you have any problems or questions (or would like to know what other
little programs I've made such as Task StopperŪ - for when any program
generates a CPU intensive loop that even taskmanager can't pull you out
of) please feel free to email me at:
NovaFrost@cox.net
I hope this helps you like it did me!
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NovaFrost
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