An old friend of mine recently changed to a cable modem connection. He is using XP Home and has one computer . We installed a software firewall and I suggested that we disable his "File Sharing". I couldn't find a way to do that in his XP Home. I did some research and found the following MS Knowledge Base article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=307874 The article says, in part: "Note that you cannot disable simple file sharing in Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition." Some XP Home users may not be aware of things like networks and firewalls. Does that leave them, by default, susceptible to intruders, who could access their files? Is this a problem? If so, is there a fix (other than firewalls)? Thanks, Bob Lendrim