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Turn Off Administrative Shares in Windows XP [2/2]

This will forbid any sharing, including Administrative shares, but without IPC$ shares. Next go to Control Panel > Administrative tools > Services or just type services.msc in Start > Run and Services Manager will appear. Find service named Server and from properties select Disabled for Startup Type.

This action generally will stop Windows sharing abilities including File and Print sharing. IPC$ shares will be stopped too.


Turn Off Administrative Shares in Windows XP
It is important to know, when you stop Server service this will stop Computer Browser service also. But you don't have to wary about this, because this service have no relation with any browsers and your Internet connection will not be interrupted.

Also you can find many Windows related tutorials in our Windows tutorials section or you can read Internet & Network security of Windows XP / 2003 article for more information about Windows Networking Security

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