Trying to show a balloon hint in Windows normally works fine:

Looket here
• This is a short line

And you can have very long balloon hints:

Looket here
• This is a a very long line, certainly longer than the last example

And you can have multi-line hints:

Looket here
• This is a a very long line
• This is a bit shorter
• Shorter still
• Shortest

But Windows falls over dead when the first line is short

It seems that the maximum length of subsequent lines of a multi-line balloon hint is dictated by the length of the first line:

Looket here
• But short first line ⇐ shorter
• This is a a very long line ⇐ than this one
• This is a bit shorter
• Shorter still
• Shortest

How do i tell the Windows tooltip control to not cut off text on subsequent lines if the first line happens to be shorter than any subsequent lines?

Bonus Reading

• MSDN Forums (2006): Tooltips Cut Off (bunch of keyboard jockies didn't bother to even try it for themselves, and instead just threw out random streams of consciousness)