I don’t know if this is an incompatibility with Vista, but when I installed WW in Vista, the tray tooltip seems to stop working – initially it looks OK but then it just pops up the current weather icon inside a box with the skinned background. If I turnoff the skiined background it will pop up the list of whatever info I’ve selected, but then it quits altogether and won’t popup anything. I’ve done this a number of times and even reinstalled WW but the proble reappears.
It doesn’t appear to be affected by updates – I just rebooted (again) and the tray tooltip is working as expected through several updates. I’ll watch it closely to see when it stops working – this has occurred repeatedly so I do expect it to stop working.
Thanks for the quick response – this is a terrific utility!
It seems to happen whenever I open a graphics-intensive application – just booted up in Vista and WW tray tooltip worked OK – then started looking at Virtual Earth and I note the tooltip is back to just the current weather icon on the skin background – no text. If I exit and restart WW I’ll have the full tooltip back.
No success trying to capture a screenshot that I an send. But to describe it again – all that appears is a small (2cm x 2cm) box with the skinned background and current weather icon – no text at all. If I turn off the skin selection I get truncated text or whatever info I’ve selected.
BTW-- no sure this is related but I note that the link to “check for new version” when right clickin tray icon doesn’t work – gives me an error msg. that the attempt failed.
Still not working right - now it seems to switch to the truncated tooltip shotly after loading in Vista. Only way to restore it is to exit and restart.
A “screenshot” is a TWO step process. The 1st step captures the image. The 2nd step makes the image a file.
Step 1 - capture
When the image is on the screen press ther Print Screen button.
Step 2 - make a file
Start>Programs>Accessories press the Paint option. When Paint opens click on Edit>Paste.
Edit the picture so most extraneous stuff is removed. File>Save the picture to a GIF file.
To “post a screenshot” is a TWO step process.
Step 1 - upload the file to an image hosting website
Upload the saved image to http://imageshack.us/.
Step 2 - the end
Post the resulting URL here.
Mike, since posters have no concept of how to do a “screenshot” maybe adding instructions to the FAQ sections would be a good idea.
I just picked up Windows Vista this weekend and was able to recreate this issue. I noticed the tooltip window was as Postino posted when I switched to a city that had a severe alert.
When enabling this option, WW doesn’t freeze for me. I’m able to set the location for the tooltip window – BUT WW doesn’t use that custom location. It always reverts back to it’s default location.
Confirmed:
WW won’t close down automatically on system restart - it prompts for confirmation.
For me the WW options window just flashes – then Vista prompts if you want to force close WW.