control panel >> performance and maintenance >> system >> automatic updates

(disable updates)

right click "my computer" >> manage >> services and applications >> services >> " stop and disable" Automatic Updates.

4. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quit listing most recent documents opened under the start button - Dont want the girlfriend or the parents to find that pr0n you being viewing. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

control panel >> appearance and themes >> task bar and start menu >> start menu >> customize >> advanced

remove the checkmark next to "List my most recently opened documents".

5. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Block incoming traffic to your winxp box. - Before this change, i scanned my xp box and found it to have many ports wide open. After this change, I found nothing and xp logged the attempts in c:\windows\pfirewall.log.
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