Hide your XP computer from Network Neighborhood
Have you ever wanted to create shared folders on your XP computer so that some folks on the network can access your data, but you don't want the shares to show up in the Network Neighborhood because there are others on the network you don't want to see them?
It's easy to accomplish that.
Click Start Run.
In the Run box, type cmd to open a command prompt window.
At the command prompt, type net config server /hidden:yes