tooltips & menus won't disappear in XP pro

[Navaros]

my Windows XP Pro OS is now keeping all tootips and menus open constantly unless i leftclick on them

obviously this is a very aggravating problem that must be solved

what is causing this to happen, and how do i fix it?

ie: if i rightclick on my connection icon in my system tray, the gray menu that pops-up will STAY THERE FOREVER instead of disappearing like it's supposed to

i need all this crap to disappear like normal. please help me

[Mouzafphaerre]

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It happens to me sometimes. I guess related to memory shortage. Does it happen all the time or after long hours of work/play? If the latter is the case, a reboot will help.

Also, you may need to consider updating your display drivers. Go for the chipset manufacturer's, not the card's (ie nVidia, not Winfast for instance).

Hth
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[Navaros]

well i'll be darned, i rebooted and it fixed

the reason i thought it was a windows setting is cuz i was tinkering around and many of my settings suddenly automatically changed to what i hate. my setup was a 98SE visual emulation (as much as is possible) and for some reason i clicked the wrong thing and it all turned back to the horrid default XP Pro interface. as i was tinkering to fix it back, the non-disappearing menus started to occur

for now i will attribute this problem to memory leakage however i have another problem that is definitely NOT memory leakage:

some of my system tray icons are not appearing despite the fact that the apps associated with those icons are running AND i already have Use Personalized Menus diabled in Taskbar Options

how do i fix this?

[Navaros]

oh yes i also have Hide Inactive Icons disabled yet i'm still missing icons in my system tray

[katank]

have you tried floating your cursor over the system tray?

it doesn't update dynamically.

processes that get killed or started don't update.

float cursor there for update.

[Navaros]

the problem is that my system is booting with my ad-blocking software in the systemtray/start menu but i can not SEE the icon for it there despite the fact that it is running (and i want it to be running - i just need to be able to see the icon)

[Gregoshi]

Navaros, all the problems you are having with your PC are giving me nasty flashbacks to the nightmares I had trying to fix my dad's PC. He had a host of irratating problems including a similar problem with system tray icons, but it was with WinME. It went away when I upgraded him to WinXP (better ask dad to make sure it is still okay...).

Anyway, I'll move this over to the Apothecary with the rest of your woes.