If like me you can't stand those infernal XP popup baloon tips and wish to kill them forever but don't want to mess with the registry..here's how..
Open Notepad, copy and paste the code below, go to Save As (remember to choose All files and not txt)
Save to your Desktop (or wherever) as "RemoveTips.vbs" (without the " ")
Double click to run the file.
It will say "You may need to log off/log on For the change to take effect."
I have used it on all my XP installs and it is completely safe..works great...
Credits to Doug Knox for the script...
'xp_balloontips.vbs - Disables/Enables Windows XP BalloonTips
'© Doug Knox - rev 02/06/2002
'This code may be freely distributed/modified
Option Explicit
'Declare variables
Dim WSHShell, n, MyBox, p, itemtype, Title
Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
p = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\"
p = p & "EnableBalloonTips"
itemtype = "REG_DWORD"
n = 0
WSHShell.RegWrite p, n, itemtype
Title = "Balloon Tips are now Disabled." & vbCR
Title = Title & "You may need to log off/log on" & vbCR
Title = Title & "For the change to take effect."
MyBox = MsgBox(Title,4096,"Finished")
