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Can you move the pop up labels For icons on the Task bar in Windows 11
Yes, this is my issue as well. Exact same problem - I mouse over the taskbar and text appears in about a second or two preventing clicking on the icon that I want from the taskbar. My favorite example of this is where the word "Start" appears to block the Start Menu icon in the Taskbar, (when the mouse hovers over the icon) preventing a click on the Start Menu itself!! To the point, if a user doesn't know what the Windows Start Menu looks like as a graphical icon...in 2022, maybe computers aren't that user's thing. MSFT should get how this aid is silly to flash in perpetuity...it's common sense and/or basically learning...a mouse in an experiment could figure it out for the proverbial food reward.
Have been looking for a configuration setting or a regedit option to nuke this. Right clicking the Taskbar to get into Taskbar Settings does NOT seem to do the trick. Also tried looking thru the options under 'system.cpl' - also seems to be a NO go. Wondering if anyone knows the right way to modify this...for me, I'd just like to turn off the text 'assistance' - I know what apps I have pinned to the Taskbar (after all, I pinned most of them!! 🙂 )
I agree, the labels popping up on top of the taskbar icon is a PAIN. You have no more than a second to click the icon before the popup label covers the icon and then you have to move off the icon then back on the icon and them make sure you click in less than a second.
I know what my icons are, I DON'T NEED the popup labels for the icons.