"New hardware found" wizard thing not popping up

You know that little bubble/wizard thing that pops up in the lower left corner when you plug in a new device like a USB drive or new monitor or mouse or whatever? Well, we have these new machines that are not doing that. When we add a new monitor it does not appear. I plug in my usb drive and have to manually load the device through the device mangler. Same thing goes for Palm pilots and any other usb device.

I remember when XP first came out and we all learned how to eliminate the wizard guy thing from appearing, but i do not remember how to get this feature back. Do you?


TIA,
muppet guy

Is it balloon tips?