We really don't like the balloon pop-ups in the taskbar in XP so we have been turning it off in the registry. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] "EnableBalloonTips"=dword:00000000 "EnableBalloonNotificationsLocal"=dword:00000000 "EnableBalloonNotificationsRemote"=dword:00000000