Windows 10: Hovering over icons in any program wont enlarge the text but creates random colors instead....

Discus and support Hovering over icons in any program wont enlarge the text but creates random colors instead.... in Windows 10 BSOD Crashes and Debugging to solve the problem; Two days ago I noticed I was on youtube and one of the titles was too long for me to read, so instinctively I put my cursor on the link and held it... Discussion in 'Windows 10 BSOD Crashes and Debugging' started by Ideriom, Feb 2, 2019.

  1. Ideriom Win User

    Hovering over icons in any program wont enlarge the text but creates random colors instead....


    Two days ago I noticed I was on youtube and one of the titles was too long for me to read, so instinctively I put my cursor on the link and held it there and normally it would show the full name of the video. Instead i was greeted with a box of pink. This same thing happens in all my files too. If I hover over a desktop shortcut its just a box of colors. Also in Steam I was in the shop and my whole top bar was all just green. It's not always green sometimes there's no color change but its blank. (super hard for me to explain whats happening) As I was typing this and snipping some examples, I realized that some of my snipping tools were just covered by these random colors and only went away when I went across them with my cursor. This all started happening after I cleaned out my pc. I uninstalled a lot of programs and defragged my hdd but I was really safe during this process so I am not sure if this plays into effect. (probably does cause I screw up a lot of things) Any help could be highly appreciated because this is getting really annoying and prevents me from doing a lot of tasks.



    Example snips:


    Hovering over desktop icons shows this. Hovering over youtube thumbnails sometimes shows this.

    Hovering over icons in any program wont enlarge the text but creates random colors instead.... cd541f84-e6ff-4f56-9e87-2b34f3c12cbe?upload=true.png Hovering over icons in any program wont enlarge the text but creates random colors instead.... 78091ce1-0169-4b5f-ba64-c8dc305eed36?upload=true.png


    Hovering over youtube thumbnails shows this super old text.

    Hovering over icons in any program wont enlarge the text but creates random colors instead.... 3e79b2bc-e779-4531-95de-fa58d0d5be65?upload=true.png Snipping tool tools are blank until i move my cursor over them.


    Hovering over icons in any program wont enlarge the text but creates random colors instead.... 62f61c08-a6ea-43ea-a058-17bf12d351d9?upload=true.png Top of the Steam bar is just blank. I can move my cursor over the invisible library and it will appear but the moment i move my cursor away it hides itself. Hovering over icons in any program wont enlarge the text but creates random colors instead.... 2720021a-5a29-4c23-a85d-e556876d92b3?upload=true.png

    :)
     
    Ideriom, Feb 2, 2019
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  2. donwb Win User

    Color Changes to mouse hover


    Hi Dick

    Tried the icon cache reset, it did reset, but so far I didn't detect any change.

    I looked at your step recording. What's interesting is that your taskbar does show a loudspeaker icon, apparently even when you're not hovering over it. Then when you click on it you get the vertical slider picture. I get that but by clicking on an empty box. For me, the same is true for the other missing icon - "new notifications"

    In your other picture of the mouse over the power icon, I get that just the same, but when I move the mouse down to the first option - Sleep - it is replaced by a black rectangle.

    I'll live with these for the time being.

    I will try MCBUILDER.exe and report the results later.

    .....then I'd have to consider the Spitfires.......

    Many thanks
    Don
     
    donwb, Feb 2, 2019
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  3. In Windows 10 when I hover over a Taskbar app icon I Do get a SMALL preview above, but when I hover over the Small Preview it USED to enlarge but since update it does not enlarge

    In Windows 10 when I hover over a Taskbar app icon I Do get a SMALL preview above, but when I hover over the Small Preview it USED to enlarge but since update it does not enlarge
     
    PeterHewes, Feb 2, 2019
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  4. f14tomcat Win User

    Hovering over icons in any program wont enlarge the text but creates random colors instead....

    Color Changes to mouse hover


    Don, I've included a "Step Recording" for you to view. It shows the results of hover and click on your issues. Open in your browser.

    Even though the step text says "click", it's obvious where I was hovering.

    It did not pick up the hover text on the 3 power options, but they did display and were not blacked out. Nothing was blacked out on any of these steps. Probably the Step Recorder doesn't pick up tool tip messages on sub-menus. All appeared normal on my display.

    What are the 2 tray icons still missing?

    Please try the icon cache reset, it can cure a lot of goofy tray issues.

    Also, you may want to try running MCBUILDER.exe from an Admin cmd line, followed by a restart. It rebuilds the Microsoft Resource cache.

    (I smell a dogfight coming!)

    Cheers! *Cool Dick...
     
    f14tomcat, Feb 2, 2019
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