Windows 10: Windows 11 Taskbar Notification Area Tooltip not overlaying upon hover unless focused first

Current Behavior:A maximized app is active and open click on it to focus on it.Hovering the cursor over the notification area doesn't overlay the Tooltip It's showing just underneath the active app.Need to first click the taskbar to focus on it.Once the taskbar is focused then you can hover again and it will overlay the Tooltip.Expected Behavior:A maximized app is active and open click on it to focus on it.Hovering the cursor over the notification area shows the overlayed Tooltip regardless of whether the taskbar is focused or not.I swear I have used Windows 11/10 for quite a while now.

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Tooltips in taskbar list

I have the Windows setting to Always Combine buttons; when I click on a taskbar button it displays a list with the titles of the open windows (I have the registry setting Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband\NumThumnails DWORD (32 bit) (REG_DWORD) with value 0)

so that makes it a list rather than the preview, which is what I want, now the problem is when the list is displayed and I hover with the mouse over an item (or if I do Win+number, repeatedly to cycle through the items), there is this tooltip that shows up, in case the title is on the bigger side and doesn't fit on width, that shows the entire text of the title over several lines. I hate this thing because it obscures the other items in the list.

Would there be any way to turn these tooltips off?

Note I'm not asking to turn off the tooltips that show when you hover over the taskbar button - but when you hover over an item in the list.

Alternatively, is there any way to make the list wider so that longer items fit in it, and that way, the tooltips won't show anymore (I noticed they don't show when I hover over a list item that short - shorter than the overall list width)?

Thanks a bunch!

 

ids systray tooltip at Windows 10

Thank you for sharing the screenshot. The ids_systray tooltip is a Windows system process that manages the system tray icon. You don't need to worry about your personal files and configuration, this is a normal background process. You can hide it
from the notification area by disabling it in Taskbar Settings.

• Click the Start button.
• Type Taskbar settings. and then press
  Enter.
• Scroll down to Notification area.
• Click Select which icons appear on the taskbar.
• Disable ids_systray tooltip.

Let us know if you need further assistance.

 

Notification Area - Taskbar problem?

Hello @Willabong, *Smile You can use the method in the tutorial below to reset the notification area icons to also clear the "Select which icons appear on the taskbar" list in Settings. Reset Notification Area Icons in Windows 10