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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Dean Mitchell
VG, You were, as you know, absolutely right and I am most appreciative. It works perfectly every time and without starting it separately. Thanks.
Dean