Help, "Bubble" Notifications cut off in task bar notification area (see pic inside)

I can't read all the stuff in the bubble. Also, I need to click on the task in order to mouse over and have the bubbles appear. For example, if I wanted to see my battery life, I would need to click on the task bar then mouse over to the battery indicator, where the bubble would pop up cut off as seen above.

 

Is it a new problem? Have you rebooted?

 

Why did I not think of that before?

(Yeah, it worked).

 

It's always the first thing to try in Windows

Btw, I've found this interesting link: http://dan.hersam.com/2006/09/18/tooltips-hidden-behind-taskbar-in-xp/

According to the website, there are two possibilities:

-temporary solution:
Go to Start/All Programs: Hover over any program listed, right click and select Sort by Name. Repeat once more.

I sorted by name once and checked the tooltips and they still weren’t visible, so I did it again and it worked. It remains a mystery why this has any affect on the tooltips being visible, especially having to do it twice.

-definitive solution:
ToolTipFixer: http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=10

 

Yeap, try ToolTipFixer as John B suggested, here's a longer article about it http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2007/12/08/fix-windows-tooltips-showing-behind-taskbar/

 

That happens to me sometimes in both of my laptops when I haven't rebooted in awhile.

 

This happens to me on my desktop after playing games for long hours.

Thanks for the fix!

 

its a bug in xp, it has been fixed in vista but microsoft is being lazy with it in xp.