Windows 10: system tray tooltips don't show in windows 10

Hi,

On previous Windows installations I used to roll the mouse pointer over the system tray icons in order to show tooltips like the % level of battery or the volume of the speakers. I also used to left-click in order to change the volume but now after upgrading to win10, those features seem as disappeared.

Is there any property to be set to achieve that or the features are definitively lost?

Rgds,
Alex

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Tooltips in Notification Tray In Windows 10

The tooltips have never been visible since my upgrade. The notification tray area is mostly opaque but no tooltips will display at all. If I right click on objects in the task tray I can interact with them, but none show tooltips and there's information
in my VPN clients tooltip that I require.

 

Tooltips in Notification Tray In Windows 10

Is there a way to get these back? I now mouseover my icons in the notification tray area in windows 10 and no tooltip is visible. Some of these apps I use display important information, such as VPN Port information, in these tooltips that I can no longer
see in Windows 10. Anyone know of a registry fix to reenable these?

 

I've never had this problem, but I would check out this tutorial https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/6...dows-10-a.html

 

Thanks but the problem is about notifications not visual effects.

I activated the required icons doing the following:

Right-click the taskbar -> Properties -> in the "Notification Area" section, click the "Customize" button

but the notifications do not appear yet.

Bye,
Alex

 

I get pop ups that show what I am point at.

 

That is the problem.

 

Please explain in greater detail.

 

I think I have exactly the same problem. The system tray icons in the bottom right of the screen are all there. When I hover the mouse over them, no tooltip appears. Previously, in Windows 7, I would always see a tooltip pop up after a second, sometimes with just the name of the program, sometimes with more information. In Windows 10, these tooltips no longer appear for me.

 

As I stated above, I am experimenting some inconvenience with icons on traybar after upgrading to win10:

1. No popups appear after pointing at the battery icon (it should show the percentage of battery left but it does not).

2. Leftclick on the speakers icon seems allowed no more (it was very useful because until 8.1 I was able to change the volume directly from the popup).

rgds,
alex

 

@Edwin

As I stated above, I am experimenting some inconvenience with icons on traybar after upgrading to win10:

1. No popups appear after pointing at the battery icon (it should show the percentage of battery left but it does not).

2. Leftclick on the speakers icon seems allowed no more (it was very useful because until 8.1 I was able to change the volume directly from the popup).

rgds,
alex

 

Hmmm..., definitely something wrong there.
Maybe try resetting Notification Icon Cache:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5...dows-10-a.html

or maybe it's a graphics problem, check if your graphics drivers are up to date.

 

This worked for me. After running the script and rebooting, the tooltips are back. I had to set which icons are always visible again, but that is hardly a problem. Thanks a lot for the suggestion!

 

That's good news! *Thumbs

 

Resetting the cache did the trick!

Thank you very much for your help!

Alex