Tray tooltips show behind taskbar

I had this very annoying problem in Windows XP (SP2). When I hovered mouse over a tray icon to show it’s tooltip, the tooltip was showing behind taskbar. I don’t know if there is an official fix to this issue but the following worked for me:

1. Open regedit (Start–>Run–>regedit)
2. Go to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\

CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\TooltipAnimation
3. Create (Right Click–>New–>String Value) or modify value:
   
   SetWindowPos=HwndInsertAfter, Hwnd_Top
4. Create (Right Click–>New–>DWORD Value) or modify value:
   
   SetForegroundWindow=1
5. Restart Windows

Here’s a program called tooltip fix.exe who’s original hosting website was deactivated

luckily this site mirrored the program

http://atpeaz.placidthoughts.com/index.php?/archives/153-Fixing-the-Windows-XP2003-Taskbar-Tooltip-bug.html

here’s a link to the program in a rar file

http://atpeaz.placidthoughts.com/exit.php?url_id=127&entry_id=153

drop it in ur quicklaunch bar for easy access and click it when the problem starts to occur, then the problem is gone!