Many of us don't know that we can retrict number of users sharing taking files from the folders that we share in XP. We think that its an advance feature added up in windows vista. But this is not true. You can go to the folder options and uncheck the the recommended checkbox of basic sharing in the view tab to see this advance sharing option in windows XP as well. For more details view:http://fhctech.org/fhc/networking/xp-sharing-folder.htm.