Some network cards have an onboard processor that you can use instead of the main CPU for certain functions.If your network adapter has an onboard processor, designed to offload network processing from the system CPU, it is disabled by default in Windows XP. If your NIC(Network Interface Card) driver supports this onboard processor, you can enable it by a simple registry tweak as follows.This setting help to increase the processing speed of your system. Launch the Windows Registry Editor read more

Remote Assistance feature in Windows XP is designed for informal, peer-to-peer use by Windows users without an extensive technical background. Although the user interface hides most of its complexities, a basic understanding of how Remote Assistance connections work can help you make reliable connections without compromising the security of either computer. You can provide Remote Assistance to a friend who uses a Network Address Translation (NAT) device by modifying the Remote Assistance read more

If you use Windows XP on a local area network (LAN), and you save and open files in shared folders as part of a workgroup on a server, you can create a virtual drive whose drive letter appears in the My Computer window along with those of your local drives — this process referred to as mapping a network drive. If you frequently use the Map Network Drive command in Windows XP, you probably have a lot of network paths displaying in the MRU (Most Recently Used) list, which appears in the read more

If you use Windows XP on a local area network (LAN), and you save and open files in shared folders as part of a workgroup on a server, you can create a virtual drive whose drive letter appears in the My Computer window along with those of your local drives — this process referred to as mapping a network drive. To map a network drive in Windows XP, follow these steps: Click Tools–>Map Network Drive on the Windows XP My Computer menu bar to open the Map Network Drive dialog read more