Chrome URL tooltip in lower left corner not showing

Chrome URL tooltip in lower left corner not showing

For some reason chrome is not showing me urls for links in the lower left
corner of the window anymore. It doesn't appear to be an extension issue
either, as it happens even after I disable them all. Here are the
necessary details:
Chrome Version: 29.0.1547.57 m
Operating System: Windows 7 x64 SP1
Installed extensions (all disabled): Adblock Plus, Empty New Tab Page,
Google Docs, Hangouts, Reddit Enhancement Suite, Secure Shell
All chrome flags set to default/disabled.
Edit:
It appears to have something to do with desktop composition. I need to run
Visual Studio 6, and to make the VB6 form editor work correctly under
Windows 7 I had to check the "Disable Desktop Composition" box in the
Compatibility tab in the properties for that executable. When I'm running
VB6 it puts windows 7 in a 'Basic' color scheme.
When I start up chrome before I run VB6, link previews work just fine. But
afterwards they don't work at all, even after I've exited VB6, until I
restart chrome. This also happens if I start chrome while I am running
VB6.