Try this method,

Go to the Guide9 icon, right click and select Properties, Compatiblity
Tab, select Disable Visual Themes.

Denis

On 8/9/2014 2:22 AM, chasseurdesgalaxies@... [guide-user] wrote:
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> Hi,
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> since a few weeks, I have the problem that the tooltips (over the icons,
> not the explanations in the header of the Guide program) only show up as
> points (like this ".... ...").
> Strangely enough this only happens on my WIN 7 machine. I have Guide
> also installed on a MACbook Pro laptop (this time with WIN 98 on
> Virtualbox), ... and there it works fine.
> I copied over the toolbar.dat file from the Guide in the WIN 98 machine
> to the WIn 7 machine: ... same problem. [I even installed Virtual PC on
> my WIN 7 machine, to run the WIN 98 virtual CD on my machine with WIN 7
> installed. In this case (WIN 98 VM on the machine with WIN 7), the
> tooltips just work fine].
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> Very strange ! I tried a lot of things. I reduced for instance the
> screen font size, because I had a doubt that the points were only parts
> of letters. But no ! Same for the size of the font in the tooltips.dat
> files (original and language).
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> Does anyone has an idea ?
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> Rudi
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