There is just no end to the ways Windows drives me crazy.
I bought a new computer in December. It runs Win XP Home SP2 and every one in a while when I mouseover the clock I don’t get the little window with the day/date, or, if I do get it, it’s under the taskbar so I can only see the top edge of it. I’m not sure how often this happens but it only does it with the clock; hovering over the icons and buttons on the rest of the taskbar/quicklaunch results in the proper info window popping up. I tried unchecking the box to keep the taskbar on top of other windows and that made it work right, but that’s no solution since I want it on top.
Have any of you other dopers out there experienced this and/or have a solution? Thanks.
This doesn’t really solve your problem, but an easy workaround would be to double-click on the clock. The full calendar that opens shows you the current date and day-of-week.
Yeah, but like you say, that doesn’t solve the problem.
When I turned on the computer this morning the first thing I did was mouseover the clock and it worked…once. It hasn’t worked since.
What I really don’t like is that it happens with the clock, which I mouseover fairly often, and not on some other thing which I don’t hover over. Just more proof that life’s a bitch and then you die.
What about using a utility like TClock?
Eh, I forgot to mention what it does: It simply lets you display the date and such in addition to just the time. Then you won’t have to mouseover at all?
Do you have the taskbar set to autohide? That’s the only time I have seen something similar, and admittedly this wasn’t with the clock system tray icon either, but with a motherboard hardware program.
I thought about doing that but it’s not really that big a deal. I’m just curious about why it’s acting this way. I’ll probably check at the MS knowledge base for it, but I don’t hold much hope for that or emailing tech support. Before I posted here I Googled and didn’t come up with anything.
No, the taskbar is set to stay on top of other windows.
My XP computer at work has done the same thing on occasion. I haven’t noticed it recently though. I’ll see if I can get it to happen again. You may want to try temporarily disabling any other utilities you have in the system tray, maybe one of them is causing some sort of conflict.
Right after I clicked back to General Questions I clock hovered and it worked properly. That surprised me so I did it two or three more times and it worked. Then I decided to post this message about it working and before I clicked the thread I hovered again and it didn’t work. It’s still not working at 8:23.
It happens to me too, like when I tried it just now.
Oh, Windows… all the mysteries that you hold!
Thanks to all of you who responded. It started working right again sometime yesterday and at this moment is still working. Whatever it was has gone back into hiding til next time.
My work pc does this all the time, too. Window prioritizing is also a bit wonky–sometimes when I click a window, it gains focus but doesn’t rise to the top of the screen. I think it’s related somehow. Annoying, gotta love Microsoft programming…