No date tooltip when I hover over clock in system tray

I have a strange problem with Windows 8.1 Pro. I installed 8.1 Pro clean on this machine and the tooltips used to show just fine when I hover over the clock. Something has changed this behavior. I have uninstalled apps that I can remember installing AFTER it broke but I am still at a loss. I thank anyone who may offer assistance.


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What if you hover over other icons, such as the speaker there in your system tray? Does a bubble appear after a couple seconds?

Yeah, all other tooltips in the notification area are working. Thanks

FTR, I too have W8.1 Pro and it works here. So it is not something MS got rid of.

You might try disabling tool tips, then enabling it again.

In Control Panel > Folder Options, select the View tab, then near the bottom, uncheck Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items and select apply.

Now all tool tips should be disabled.

Then reverse the process to enable them again and see what happens.

Thanks Itaregid, but that did not work. It did disable tooltips for hover over files and folders on desktop/explorer but the system tray icons showed their tooltips regardless of this setting. I tried this on my Windows 8 laptop also with same result.

Sorry, but I am at a loss here. Hopefully someone else will come by with some ideas for you.

You didn't disable Flash, did you?

I use chrome but I do not remember disabling related to flash?