The way to disable Universal Plug and Play is to download a program from www.grc.com. The program is small and it will work on Pro or home version of Windows XP, just goto the page www.grc.com and on the first page you will see a link titled UnPlug n' Pray click here next you see the page showing the program, how it works.

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