Originally posted by: CTho9305
Originally posted by: AmusedOne
I have this problem too. If you click on the taskbar first to make it the active window, then hover, it will work.
For some reason XP is forgetting to keep the taskbar on top. I can temporarily correct this by going to taskbar properties and clicking "keep on top" off and back on.
It's a bug.
thanks
thats an acceptable workaround (click the taskbar first)... think SP1 will fix this?
I've been pondering replacing my shell with the win2k explorer.exe anyway though to get rid of that annoying "slide in" or "grow in" animation when something new comes onto the taskbar (it's really slow for some reason, even though every other animation and fade is very smooth)
I can fix that for you, and you can still have all the pretty windows
Go to System Properties and click on the Advanced tab then on the Performance button.
Uncheck:
Fade or slide menus into view (most important, as the time it takes is very annoying)
Fade or slide tooltips into view
Fade out menus after clicking
Slide open combo boxes
Slide taskbar buttons
Smooth scroll list boxes
You can also speed up your menus by unchecking "Show shadows under menus" too. Sure, it's eyecandy, but you really can't notice the difference.
More speed can be had if you uncheck "Show Shadows under mouse pointer"
Trust me, you wont notice that this stuff is gone, and your system will feel MUCH more snappy.
Hope this helps