If you use Windows Vista, you might have noticed the balloon popups look like the ones from Windows XP. But in the good old days of longhorn testing, the balloon tips actually looked like following:
As you can see in the above screenshot, the Longhorn balloon tips were glassy and look excellent.
If you want to recreate that effect for Windows XP and vista, you can use a small application GlassToast created by our friend "Andreas Verhoeven".
You can download it using following link:
This article was posted by VG in following section: Software, Windows Vista, Windows XP.
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ashishbk
This one's amazing VG.. Looking forward to try it on my pc
abh
VG,it doesnt run in my pc.........only error msg appears......suggest something!
mhr
be careful while using it , it deals with explorer.exe any problems while running can cause your computer to be down
ashishbk
Its working fine bro..
abh
VG,my problem( Glassy notification doesn't appear) is still there,what precaution i can take?? :!:
VB_f-GR
Very coool !!!
Thanks VG & Ave
It's an amazing app with R.O.O.B.E. !!!!
balaji
hi vg,
is there a similar tooltip replacement for xp since the xp gfx subsystem uses alpha bitmapping too? would be very cool with the vista.vg style you have given.
VG
^^ It also works on XP.
Dean Mitchell
VG, Downloaded from the link and certainly prefer GlassToast to the regular balloons in Vista.
Any recommendations for how to make it start with Windows? Thanks
VG
^^ You can add its shortcut to Startup folder.