How to bring back x² Infotips?

AEN007 · Post by **AEN007** » 2010 Jan 05, 18:43

5January2010

Greetings.

Is there an x²Lite registry setting I should/must (re)set to bring back x²Lite Infotips?

Today I noticed that neither x²L nor 2xEx nor FreeCommander
were automatically displaying Infotips on any of my 3 XP laptops.
I checked/confirmed that each explorer on each laptop
was set to display Infotips. I then guessed that because I had done
a reg tweak a few weeks ago to remove Search from the XP Startmenu
that a side effect was no Infotips in explorers. After I undid the reg tweak
and added Search back to the Startmenu, 2xEx & FreeComm both
immediately began displaying Infotips but not x². When I put the mouse
over a line item in x², then x² displays the Infotip - both after this
latest reg tweak and before. I also have the x² Infotip size limit set to 0.

Is there an x²Lite registry setting I should/must (re)set to bring back x²Lite Infotips?

Any helpful replies/insights appreciated.
Thank you.
Regards,
AEN
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Post by **nikos** » 2010 Jan 07, 07:48

assuming that you haven't broken infotips altogether on your windows (can you see them in windows explorer?) you can show them in xplorer2 if you have infotips enabled from Tools > Options > Window > View

also if you can't see tips for larger files inrease the infotip extraction bytesize limit from Tools > Options > General

AEN007 · Post by **AEN007** » 2010 Jan 07, 10:07

7January2010

Greetings.
Strange reply ...
Seems to ignore (almost) everything I said in my post ...
including my question ...
I guess deliberately so ...

The remove search is a config setting built into XP Pro
through gpedit.msc.
MS might not know all the side effects of everything ...

Like I said I have InfoTips in 2xEx & FreeCommander ...
and actually everywhere XCEPT x¹...
Strange ...
XCEPT when I put/hover the mouse over the item in x² -
which is how it was with everything until I undid the reg tweak.

Like I said x² is/was already configured
to display InfoTips with unlimited size ...

Is there an x²Lite registry setting I should/must
(re)set to bring back x²Lite InfoTips?

Any helpful replies/insights appreciated.
Thank you.
Regards,
AEN
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What about advanced keyboard mnemonics in x²???

AEN007 · Post by **AEN007** » 2010 Jan 16, 12:07

16January2010

Greetings.
I have recently noticed that
"Highlight primary sort column (XP or later)"
is checked but "greyed out" on each of my 3 XP laptops.
Maybe x² "thinks" that it is not on an XP or later laptop?

Maybe some other XP gpedit.msc tweak
like removing "Logoff" from the startmenu is interfering with x²?
No other apps/utils exhibit these "symptoms".

Any helpful replies/insights appreciated.
I suppose I might have to try adding Logoff back to the startmenu ...
Thank you.
Regards,
AEN
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Post by **nikos** » 2010 Jan 17, 08:28

do you have a manifest file *.manifest in the xplorer2 installation folder? if not then reinstall it

AEN007 · Post by **AEN007** » 2010 Jan 19, 16:44

19January2010

Greetings.
THAT DID IT.
PROBLEM SOLVED!
Thanks for everything ...