How To Disable Windows Balloon Tips

Balloon tips are the little popups that come from your system tray area near the clock in your start menu.  Sometimes these popups can be quite anoying as they can cover up something that you were looking at,  and when you click on the x to close down the popup another 2 or 3 pop up in there place.  Vista and XP users can turn these popups by editing the registry,  click on start > run and type in   regedit   and hit enter.  Not Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced  now right click on select New > DWORD and call it  EnableBaloonTips and give it a value of 0 and click ok.
Windows 7 users can go to start menu > Control panel > System and Security and select the option to review your computers status.  Click change action center settings on the left and untick anything you dont want to be notified about