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ToolTipFixer sits silently and invisibly in the background, intercepting this problem and fixing it as it happens \u2013 letting you read those tooltips and use your PC the way you should be able to.<\/p>\n
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Now for the good stuff: the number one request we\u2019ve had was to eliminate the Microsoft .NET Framework as a requirement for using ToolTipFixer. As a matter of productivity and preference, Microsoft\u2019s .NET Framework has a special place in our hearts, but we realize that many people would prefer something a bit\u2026 lighter and as such ToolTipFixer 2.0 has been rewritten from scratch in C++ with no dependencies \u2013 not even the MSVC++ runtime libraries.<\/strong><\/p>\n The second oft-made request was improvements to ToolTipFixer\u2019s memory usage. This particular component is tightly-tied to the development platform of choice, and with the switch over to unmanaged C++, it\u2019s become possible to further-tune the amount of memory that TTF uses and bring it down as much as possible, something that\u2019s not in the developers\u2019 hands when using the .NET Framework \u2013 which, with its automated garbage cleanup, makes memory usage highly variable at best.<\/p>\n TTF 2 has drastically improved memory management \u2013 it\u2019ll take so little memory, you won\u2019t even know it\u2019s there<\/strong> (from 0.3 to 1.5 MiB in our extended testing, depending on OS and platform).<\/p>\n 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\u2019t mean you can\u2019t get rid of this bug too \u2013 ToolTipFixer 2.0 has full support for Windows XP\/Vista x64!<\/strong><\/p>\n And to save the best for last, ToolTipFixer can now be run in what we call \u201cstandalone mode.\u201d During setup, you\u2019ll have the option of either installing TTF the traditional way \u2013 as a system application sitting silently and invisibly in the background \u2013 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\u2019t bother you incessantly then you can choose to only run TTF when you need it<\/strong>!<\/p>\n Download: ToolTipFixer 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NeoSmart Technologies first released ToolTipFixer to great acclaim last June, over a year ago now. Since then, the downloads have kept on pouring in \u2013 along with a number of suggestions that we\u2019ve taken to heart and hopefully implemented in … Continue reading