How to identity the app, fix this stuck on screen item without rebooting?

How does one identity the app, fix this stuck on screen item without rebooting? I forgot what this was called so didn't get anywhere with Google.

Looks like a tooltip window, but you can use procexp, select the cross hair icon and click on the stuck item and it should id the process

Thanks, wonder if this can be done with System Informer formerly known as Process Hacker as well as I know when my mouse app showed it, all I had to do was put the mouse pointer over the mouse app icon and it will disappear. Looks like it was actually some page I viewed in Chrome as I closed and reopened Chrome when I was replying to this and it was gone after trying to search for Process Hacker tooltip identify and saw this:

Yes process hacker is more or less process explorer with extra features

You sure it doesn’t belong to your SwitftPoint ProPoint mouse settings?

Ask them on the community forum.

Thanks @neemobeer.

Just in case anyone wants to know how to do this in System Informer, formerly Process Hacker.



It's the two icons on the right of System Information, make sure the item in question while System Informer is opened:
The icon without the arrow will show you what process the item belongs to,
The icon on the right with the arrow will show you the process and also the threads the item belongs to.
After you click it, there will be a cross which you would click on the item in question and depending on which option above was chosen, the first one will highlight the process and the second one will show a actual window as a pop-up.

antspants said:

You sure it doesn’t belong to your SwitftPoint ProPoint mouse settings?

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Yes, this one is from some chrome webpage I visited as closing Chrome fixed it. SwiftPoint's doens't look like that as it only shows this which happens from time to time that SwiftPoint is aware of... this can show up anywhere on the screen and the fix is to put the mouse pointer over the SwiftPoint Control Panel app's icon, no need to click the mouse and it will be gone.



Someone posted about the Swiftpoint issue on their forums:

That would drive me nuts. I’d have a monitor with a swiftpoint sticking out of it. It would be a modern art piece.

antspants said:

That would drive me nuts. I’d have a monitor with a swiftpoint sticking out of it. It would be a modern art piece.

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LOL, only reason I am using a SwiftPoint mouse is because it's a notebook and the thing is small enough that I can use everything on the right of the touchpad as the mousepad. I am sure there is a reason Microsoft and Logitech did not make anything the size of Swiftpoint's Pen-grip mouses.

So you like it because it’s ergonomic? I got my wife a little yellow Logi mouse for traveling. Small, she likes it, I don’t as I find it uncomfortable after 5min of use.

I have to say though, instant connectivity, her Lenovo Yoga loves it.
4.13 inch. Width: 2.34 inch

The Logi mouses are also way bigger as this mouse is 2.2 inches x 1.6 inches x 1.3 inches/5.6cm x 4cm x 3.3 cm so it is very small as I have a Logitech MX Anywhere 2S which is Height: 3.95 in (100.3 mm) · Width: 2.4 in (61.6 mm) · Depth: 1.35 in (34.4 mm) and you can literally fit a few on the Swiftpoint ProPoint mouses... Here are some photos to see how big it is... It works well for me as I have been using it for the last 15 years as it will fit in the smallest places when traveling.



As I still have not unpacked the few hundred 25kg boxes, I am limited in space so the notebook actually sits on top of my Proceed (baby Mark Levinson) AMP 5 125lb Audio Amplifier's box with the Amp still inside it and don't have the space for the actual mousepad as the computer is sitting on the laptop desk that only has 60% of the width sitting on top of the box while the other 40% is sitting over the floor.

In any case, back to the original issue and the answer to the question which is found at How to identify which program has left a portion of its UI floating on my screen? which I will copy here and I will be focusing on WinCheat which is no longer available:
"To answer the question itself, you can find the process that owns the tooltip by using a debugging tool like Spy++ or WinCheat.

Drag the window picker tool over the tooltip and it will show you the window's details, including the owning process.

If you then go to the Actions tab, you can send the tooltip window a WM_CLOSE message and it will go away. (Be careful with this tool -- great power, great responsibility. Apps may not expect windows to be closed out from under them. Doing this doesn't appear to make Chrome crash.)"

Chrome is referenced here as the issue with the original question there was also with Google Chrome. WinCheat however is no longer available and it took some time to find this so I am providing it on file mirrors as:

WinCheat v1.7 Build 4680 which is available from:
List has been updated, thanks to @antspants for letting me know...

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With the advent of the Precision Touchpad, it's been several years since I've used a physical mouse. Anyone else using only their laptop touchpad?

TraderGary said:

With the advent of the Precision Touchpad, it's been several years since I've used a physical mouse. Anyone else using only their laptop touchpad?

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I just can’t. I have no control anymore, it would seem. In fact I am going to make an appointment for a Neurological checkup.

I was a musician in my younger days in another life. I had a guitar permanently attached to my body. My hands are wrecked.

TraderGary said:

With the advent of the Precision Touchpad, it's been several years since I've used a physical mouse. Anyone else using only their laptop touchpad?

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Yes, I use the touchpad almost exclusively. The only time I use anything else is when I'm on one of my laptops with a touch screen, makes scrolling through posts really easy.

TraderGary said:

With the advent of the Precision Touchpad, it's been several years since I've used a physical mouse. Anyone else using only their laptop touchpad?

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Yes, me. I hate Touchpad's as it requires multiple move all the way to the edge of the touchpad, lift finger to move the mouse pointer if one wanted to get from the bottom of the screen to the top. I prefer keyboards over the mouse if there was that functionality.

I used to like the trackpoint mouse aka eraserhead like the one on IBM/Lenovo ThinkPads and some Toshiba machines and the Dell Inspiron 8200(the 8000 and 8100 had it too)/Latitude C840/Precision Mobile Workstation (forget the model) which all share the same mother boards and had both the trackpoint and touchpad but found it is still not as good as a real mouse when it comes to movement. Touchpad's take a lot longer to do the same thing and when it comes to deadlines like trading or making online payments, every second or millisecond counts on how fast you can get the mouse pointer there. I never use the touchscreen on a computer because it will always add residue to the screen. So my complaints is more about the pointer movement. Obviously the touchpad has better things for gesture but scrolling is faster with the physical scrollwheel than the touchpad in the same amount of time. Ofcourse that could be because I rarely use the Touchpad unless I had no other choice so I could be 100% wrong too.

Almighty1 said:

Yes, me. I hate Touchpad's as it requires multiple move all the way to the edge of the touchpad, lift finger to move the mouse pointer if one wanted to get from the bottom of the screen to the top. I prefer keyboards over the mouse if there was that functionality.

I used to like the trackpoint mouse aka eraserhead like the one on IBM/Lenovo ThinkPads and some Toshiba machines and the Dell Inspiron 8200(the 8000 and 8100 had it too)/Latitude C840/Precision Mobile Workstation (forget the model) which all share the same mother boards and had both the trackpoint and touchpad but found it is still not as good as a real mouse when it comes to movement. Touchpad's take a lot longer to do the same thing and when it comes to deadlines like trading or making online payments, every second or millisecond counts on how fast you can get the mouse pointer there. I never use the touchscreen on a computer because it will always add residue to the screen. So my complaints is more about the pointer movement. Obviously the touchpad has better things for gesture but scrolling is faster with the physical scrollwheel than the touchpad in the same amount of time. Ofcourse that could be because I rarely use the Touchpad unless I had no other choice so I could be 100% wrong too.

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Yes, if you move your finger slowly on the touchpad, the cursor moves slowly. The next time you use a touchpad, try using a quick movement, and you'll be surprised to find that the cursor movement is proportional to how quickly you move. If you move quickly from one side to the other on your touchpad, the cursor will easily move from far left to far right or from top to bottom in one quick motion.

A mental turning point for me was a few years ago when I tried making my signature with a mouse. I couldn't make a signature that was even recognizable. I then tried making my signature with my touchpad and it worked superbly. That's when I realized I had much more control with my touchpad than I had with a mouse. I spent time learning to use the touchpad with light touches, single and double taps to drag and drop. I learned how to use quick one finger movements, two finger fast and slow scrolls in any direction, three finger scrolls for sound volume. I learned to control speed and accuracy.

Using a touchpad is a learned skill, much like playing a musical instrument. At this point I could never go back to using a physical mouse.

I've made my living for more than twenty years using Interactive Brokers Trader Workstation. I trade using charts. I do short term trading and for the past few years I've graduated to using only my precision touch pad. For me, my precision touchpad is faster and more accurate than using a mouse.

Of course, YMMV.

TraderGary said:

Yes, if you move your finger slowly on the touchpad, the cursor moves slowly. The next time you use a touchpad, try using a quick movement, and you'll be surprised to find that the cursor movement is proportional to how quickly you move. If you move quickly from one side to the other on your touchpad, the cursor will easily move from far left to far right or from top to bottom in one quick motion.

A mental turning point for me was a few years ago when I tried making my signature with a mouse. I couldn't make a signature that was even recognizable. I then tried making my signature with my touchpad and it worked superbly. That's when I realized I had much more control with my touchpad than I had with a mouse. I spent time learning to use the touchpad with light touches, single and double taps to drag and drop. I learned how to use quick one finger movements, two finger fast and slow scrolls in any direction, three finger scrolls for sound volume. I learned to control speed and accuracy.

Using a touchpad is a learned skill, much like playing a musical instrument. At this point I could never go back to using a physical mouse.

I've made my living for more than twenty years using Interactive Brokers Trader Workstation. I trade using charts. I do short term trading and for the past few years I've graduated to using only my precision touch pad. For me, my precision touchpad is faster and more accurate than using a mouse.

Of course, YMMV.

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It's a different type of movement since a touchpad is moving your fingers while a mouse is holding the entire thing and moving it. So speed is one issue but with the mouse, I can tell it exactly where to stop while the touchpad until one gets used to it, it will stop somewhere where you don't want it to stop. And when it comes to Touchpad's, it depends also on who made the touchpad, Synaptics is different than the ones made by other brands for example. The trackpoint will beat the touchpad when it comes to making a signature, there is a reason the Samsung Galaxy Notes come with a pen when it comes to drawing. Also, the mouse I am using is not your typical mouse as mines, you actually hold it like a pen which is the reason it's called a pen-grip type of mouse and that's why it's small so you have to try it as well as I know other people can't even use it. I know touchpad's are better for gestures but like all things, they are all learned skills. I'll have to remember all the gestures as well which will take time. Well, how much was your actual returns from the last twenty plus years... I use every broker you can name and I have 100+ accounts for my investments since 1993 which is 31 years and counting so my requirements are higher than the typical trader especially when I am trying to put almost one year of data manually back into Microsoft Money which requires using my brain to remember one number and using the mouse to copy and paste another number. My record is over 60,000% on Apple and each $0.42 is a 100% movement. I also have a few hundred browser tabs opened at the same time so it's hard to compare. I mean it's all a personal preference since some people can use track balls. But here is a video which explains the mouse I am using is not the same as your regular mouse so it's also a learning curve as well. So you are right that they all have a learning curve and what one is used to as there is really no which one is better but what is better to that person. Similar to some people like driving Porsche's and some people like driving Ford's, neither is wrong. Just like I wonder how people with Mac's can use a single button mouse when on the PC, it's always 2-3 buttons.