A little while ago we had a discussion about showing xp-style controls. To expand on that, I found a way on another site to show the xp-style "balloon" messages with the pointer relating to a specific control. Below is the link from that site. Note that as it says on the page, you need an xp manifest as also described in:
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Here is the link to the site:
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Here is the link to the site: