To disable the Windows XP Notification Area balloon tips:
1. Use the registry editor to navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced.
2. on the Edit menu, press New and DWORD value.
3. Type a Value Name of EnableBalloonTips.
4. Double-click EnableBalloonTips and type 0.
Alternately, open a CMD.EXE window and type:
REG ADD “HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced” /V EnableBalloonTips /T REG_DWORD /F /D 0
You can use the whoami command with the /groups switch to display all the groups in the currently logged on user token as the following command and output show:
whoami /groups
C:Documents and Settingsali>whoami /groups
[Group 1] = “UKDomain Users”
[Group 2] = “Everyone”
[Group 3] = “MERCURYDebugger Users”
[Group 4] = “BUILTINAdministrators”
[Group 5] = “BUILTINUsers”
[Group 6] = “UKDomain Admins”
[Group 7] = “UKEnterprise Admins”
[Group 8] = “UKSchema Admins”
[Group 9] = “LOCAL”
[Group 10] = “NT AUTHORITYINTERACTIVE”
[Group 11] = “NT AUTHORITYAuthenticated Users”
All credit to Pyxelated from Deviantart for the pic
