Notification Area Icon Dwell Time

New to Windows 7, like it a lot, but I have one thing that is driving me batty.

On the taskbar, in the notification area, I have many of the standard Windows system icons, volume, power settings, wifi, hidden icons, etc. When I try to access the options in those popup notifications. the notification disappears so quickly that I don't even have time to get my cursor on it. Maybe one in five tries I can get on it before it folds, but for practical purposes trying to use those icons is hopeless. It seems like the 'puter or the OS is just too fast.

I found one crackbrain suggestion to take out the battery (I have a laptop) and to press the power button a few times, and them replace battery and boot. Naturally, that solution didn't work, but I tried it anyway. There is also a suggestion about using the Ease of Use to set a time for notifications.... that doesn't do it. The notification area doesn't play by those rules. 5 seconds? I can't get 1/5 of a second.

I found a few instances of people having the same problem, but no solutions. Anyone have an idea how to solve this? Thanks.

Brink said:

Hello Gill, and welcome to Seven Forums.

You might see if one of the options in the tutorial below may allow the notification messages to stay open longer.

Notifications - Change How Long to Stay Open

Hope this helps,
Shawn

I made reference to that fix in my post, and as I said, it doesn't work for my problem. The minimum time setting there is 5 seconds, so if I could get that I'd be a happy camper. Mine is already set at five seconds but I'm getting a tiny fraction of a second to react. I think those settings are for a different type of notification.

Thanks for the reply.