Turn Off Administrative Shares in Windows XP [1/2]

All we know that Windows offer features for sharing folders and drivers. But this is to risky, especially the administrative shared in professional, corporate and server versions of Widnows. This shares provide access for administration of the system, but can be used for unauthorized access or from viruses and trojan horses.

Most of the administrative shares can be stopped without general turn off of sharing, but IPC$ shares can't be stopped without turning off entire sharing protocol. This will make unavailable sharing services for your entire LAN, but our target is exactly this - for one or any other reason we want to stop the service.

So, to stop the sharing go to Start > Settings > Control Panel > Network Connection > Your_Network_connection_name > Properties.

Uncheck the File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks.