I like the new hover window that pops up when you put your cursor over the temp in the tray icon!
But I found a downside if you use “Hide inactive icons” on your taskbar. Now the title for the tool tip shows up as “” when you right-click and select “Customize Notifications…” on your tray. The affect this has is that I can no longer get the behavior of “Always show” to stick. It seems like WinXP uses this title to remember the behavior on the icons in the tray. I have to set this setting everytime WinXP reboots. I wonder if adding the title back would allow the setting to stick again after a reboot. This might affect how the new popup window works (like a tooltip showing in front with the title or something like that).
This has been discussed previously Bebo though I couldn’t find where. If your update frequency is at least every 20 minutes it shouldn’t be a problem. That’s what mine is set for and the icons are always visible even when using the new popup skin option.
If you disable the popup’s skin option the XP “Always Show” option sticks.
If a space won’t work how about “…” or “.” or “_” or “*” or some other non-alphebetic character? Until we see the results of such a change we won’t know which would be better. It would seem that adding a single character title would be easy to do. [;)]
How about “!” or “?”? Oo oo oo I know, I know, the degree symbol. It seems like the perfect match. [:)]
yanno, I was all Gung Ho about Space - as it would not show…
that is, until you picked the degree symbol. On that, I have to agree, it would indeed be a perfect match - and quite possibly help alleviate this problem some folks are having in the first place.
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I was hoping otherwise, but I was at least partially fearful that exactly that would happen…
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Well, that didn’t work. It seems the only way to solve this problem is to use the standard tooltip, instead of the skinned Weather Watcher tooltip window.
Or to not use automatic hiding of notification area items…
That sucks, though. I used to use a PCMag utility called TrayManager 2, which sort of accomplishes what the XP hiding does, but in a neater interface, because by right clicking on the its icon you get a context menu of all the stuff that you have hidden, and it had the ability to automatically restore items to the notification area on an explorer.exe failure, and it had the ability to run as a service in NT-based OSs.
However, I finally realized that for me it was simpler for me to keep everything int he notification area now - b/c I keep the number of items trimmed, monitoring my startup areas and services religiously.
Apparently you cannot get access to the utility anymore from PCMag without a subscription, and I am sure they would have a conniption if I were to post it here, or even a link to it, but I still have the installer for that utility.
Let me see if there is legal recourse before I offer it as an alternative, or else see if I can find it available for public download outside of PCMag.
I downloaded it and compared it to the archive I have - 100% identical.
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