Disable Balloon Tips in Windows XP

Balloon tips are sometimes very useful in providing notifications. Sometimes it can be very annoying sending notifications every now and then. If u want to disable balloon tips then do the following.
Start>Run
Type Regedit to bring registry editor
Browse to the following key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Change dword entry "EnableBalloonTips" and put its value to "00000000"(excluding ").
Create the key if it is not already there. You may have to restart your computer to make changes to effect.