Re: Problem with clock/date

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" <franksaunders@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> "Shane" <shanebeatson@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> "Heirloom" <roland58XX@XXcox.net> wrote in message
>> news:eOSwGxECGHA.216@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>>> Don't know why it happens, but, I bet the same thing applies to the
>>> informational balloons when you hover the mouse over a quick launch
>>> icon. The cure is to reboot. I have been told by an MS-MVP that
>>> Microsoft is aware of this issue and is working on it. I have had
>>> it happen once and the reboot cured it.
>>> Heirloom, old and don't know why
>>>
>>> "Les Feinstein" <les2046at_trip_dot_net@> wrote in message
>>> news:nqlpq19quoin8fm08od1hljiqpdhfkaup7@4ax.com...
>>>> When I hover the cursor over the clock (in the systray), I generally
>>>> get a popup showing the date. This is normal. However, occasionally
>>>> the popup is mostly obscured behind the task bar. This doesn't
>>>> happen often, but when it does happen, it's repeatable each time I
>>>> bring the cursor back to the clock. I have not been able to
>>>> correlate this behavior with any specific action I have taken. Why
>>>> does this happen, and how can I fix it?
>>>> Thanks for any help.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Funny that! Never thought of it as something they'd care enough about
>> to fix. But if they do, it's sure taken them a bloody long time!
>>
>> Needless to say, I've seen it *many* times!
>>
>>
>> Shane
>


Only just seen this.

> I see it VERY rarely. The fact that it is inconsistent makes it much
> harder to fix.
>


Sure, but it's been - what - 4 years? I've seen it dozens of times and
presumably many others have too. Logic suggests it's a low priority issue,
rather than simply too rare to pin down.


Shane

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"Shane" <shanebeatson@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" <franksaunders@mvps.org> wrote in message
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>>>>
>>>> "Les Feinstein" <les2046at_trip_dot_net@> wrote in message
>>>> news:nqlpq19quoin8fm08od1hljiqpdhfkaup7@4ax.com...
>>>>> When I hover the cursor over the clock (in the systray), I
>>>>> generally get a popup showing the date. This is normal. However,
>>>>> occasionally the popup is mostly obscured behind the task bar.
>>>>> This doesn't happen often, but when it does happen, it's
>>>>> repeatable each time I bring the cursor back to the clock. I have
>>>>> not been able to correlate this behavior with any specific action
>>>>> I have taken. Why does this happen, and how can I fix it?
>>>>> Thanks for any help.
>
>> I see it VERY rarely. The fact that it is inconsistent makes it much
>> harder to fix.
>
> Sure, but it's been - what - 4 years? I've seen it dozens of times and
> presumably many others have too. Logic suggests it's a low priority
> issue, rather than simply too rare to pin down.

The first step in fixing a problem is to reproduce it. Until you can
reproduce it you can't fix it.
Although I admit that many other things probably have higher priority and I
agree that they do.

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"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" <franksaunders@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> "Shane" <shanebeatson@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:eTETWI$DGHA.472@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl
> > "Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" <franksaunders@mvps.org> wrote in message
> > news:OSqwWrICGHA.336@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> >>>>
> >>>> "Les Feinstein" <les2046at_trip_dot_net@> wrote in message
> >>>> news:nqlpq19quoin8fm08od1hljiqpdhfkaup7@4ax.com...
> >>>>> When I hover the cursor over the clock (in the systray), I
> >>>>> generally get a popup showing the date. This is normal. However,
> >>>>> occasionally the popup is mostly obscured behind the task bar.
> >>>>> This doesn't happen often, but when it does happen, it's
> >>>>> repeatable each time I bring the cursor back to the clock. I have
> >>>>> not been able to correlate this behavior with any specific action
> >>>>> I have taken. Why does this happen, and how can I fix it?
> >>>>> Thanks for any help.
> >
> >> I see it VERY rarely. The fact that it is inconsistent makes it much
> >> harder to fix.
> >
> > Sure, but it's been - what - 4 years? I've seen it dozens of times and
> > presumably many others have too. Logic suggests it's a low priority
> > issue, rather than simply too rare to pin down.
>
> The first step in fixing a problem is to reproduce it. Until you can
> reproduce it you can't fix it.
> Although I admit that many other things probably have higher priority and
I
> agree that they do.
>

My take on it would be that, after so long *someone* in a relevent position
at MS must surely have seen it and eventually been able to deduce it's
cause, even if up until then they'd failed to reproduce it. Anyway we seem
to agree that eventually the problem would be fixed given enough time and
resources, but that because it's low priority it hasn't yet?

Shane