First, for those of you that aren’t familiar with ToolTipFixer,
it’s a nifty “patch” for a very frustrating bug in Windows which winds
up rendering tooltips behind the taskbar, leaving them unreadable and
generally annoying the user to no end.
ToolTipFixer sits silently and
invisibly in the background, intercepting this problem and fixing it as
it happens – letting you read those tooltips and use your PC the way you
should be able to.
Now for the good stuff: the
number one request we’ve had was to eliminate the Microsoft .NET
Framework as a requirement for using ToolTipFixer. As a matter of
productivity and preference, Microsoft’s .NET Framework has a special
place in our hearts, but we realize that many people would prefer
something a bit… lighter and as such ToolTipFixer 2.0 has been rewritten
from scratch in C++ with no dependencies – not even the MSVC++ runtime
libraries.
TTF 2 has drastically improved
memory management – it’ll take so little memory, you won’t even know
it’s there (from 0.3 to 1.5 MiB in our extended testing, depending on OS
and platform).
Then there are those 64-bit
Windows users, and more of them than ever before. Just because you have
4+ GiB of RAM in that machine of yours doesn’t mean you can’t get rid of
this bug too – ToolTipFixer 2.0 has full support for Windows XP/Vista
x64!
And to save the best for last,
ToolTipFixer can now be run in what we call “standalone mode.” During
setup, you’ll have the option of either installing TTF the traditional
way – as a system application sitting silently and invisibly in the
background – or as a standalone module that you run only when you need
it. Some people experience the tooltip corruption problem less often
than others, and if it doesn’t bother you incessantly then you can
choose to only run TTF when you need it!
Download ToolTipFixer
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