Taskbar hover tooltips bug

JunJay · Jan 31, 2022

I've been experiencing this bug since I upgraded to W11, looked around to see if it was documented and found a thread here describing it exactly :

Win 11 explorer taskbar Bug.

No solution in there though and it doesn't seem it has been fixed yet (at least in the stable release).

Any Insider that is able to verify it's been fixed or maybe if there's a registry quick fix that can be applied to disable the tooltips or something?

P.S. I hope I did right by creating a new thread, that one was from last year, let me know just in case and I'll close this one and post there.

The-Hive · Jan 31, 2022

I don't think there has been a fix in the stable release channel yet according to the thread, I use ExplorerPatcher so I can't help I am afraid

JunJay · Jan 31, 2022

The-Hive said:
I don't think there has been a fix in the stable release channel yet according to the thread, I use ExplorerPatcher so I can't help I am afraid

Thank you, it looks like a really nice program with lots of options.

After experimenting with it I think I was able to fix the bug. I like the W11 taskbar so I kept that one, then I started playing with the different options and I may have found the one that fixed it because I have tried several times to reproduce the bug and it didn't happen, it usually takes me a couple of tries.

~~That's the option, I disabled skinning and it's not doing it any longer so far.~~ I'll keep trying and eventually mark this as solved hopefully.

Thank you again, I'll also have a look at all the other functionalities and maybe fix other bugs that have been annoying me

EDIT : Nope, it was fixed until I rebooted, back at doing it again. I will keep experimenting...

The-Hive · Jan 31, 2022

Sorry to hear it's back keep looking, I had a thing on 11 for weeks and weeks but a tweak finally appeared

ShamrockRig · Jan 31, 2022

Ooh I haven't seen this before must have missed the last thread. I'm on the latest dev build and I haven't had that issue. To be fair I've been on win11 since its first dev build and haven't ever seen it, not to say it wasn't there maybe It just isn't something I often and that's why.

The-Hive · Jan 31, 2022

Same here @Devlin1888 but I am out of the Dev channel on this machine but I have never seen it before

ShamrockRig · Jan 31, 2022

The-Hive said:
Same here @Devlin1888 but I am out of the Dev channel on this machine but I have never seen it before

The Joy's of pcs and they're what seems like unlimited variables xD

The-Hive · Jan 31, 2022

My machine and the main household pc are set up identical in pretty much every respect yet there is so much difference in them, maybe the make or the way windows self configures certain things

ShamrockRig · Jan 31, 2022

The-Hive said:
My machine and the main household pc are set up identical in pretty much every respect yet there is so much difference in them, maybe the make or the way windows self configures certain things

Yeah same here man, much as I know the stuff I need to and I have no issue learning things if I have to, usually for personally use albeit but there's still a crapload of stuff I don't know

JunJay · Jan 31, 2022

The-Hive said:
My machine and the main household pc are set up identical in pretty much every respect yet there is so much difference in them, maybe the make or the way windows self configures certain things

Could be a localization thing, the OP in the other thread doesn't use English and neither do I, just a theory and I'll try that, changing language.

BTW ExplorerPatcher didn't help, the only way was to use the W10 style. I'll keep it around though, I'm watching their GH in case anything comes up.

EDIT : Changing to English (US) did not solve it.

JunJay · Feb 4, 2022

It looks like this bug has been addressed and fixed in Build 22494 on the Dev Channel, so can anyone with an equal or higher version please confirm it's been properly fixed?

Announcing Windows 11 insider Preview Build 22494

FJRMarty · Feb 4, 2022

New W11 laptop 6 weeks ago, currently up to date - I have the same issue. Meh, this one isn't even really annoying.

Windows, still scratching my head after all these years.