Remote registry editing

Windows XP lets remote registry editing through running a service for it. Below are the step-by-step instructions to disable this security hole:

1. Goto your control panel (you can do this through clicking on your start menu)
2. Select administrative tools - services
3. On the right panel, get the service called "remote registry"
4. Right click on it and select properties
5. In the startup mode option box, select disable
6. Reboot you computer and repeat steps 1-4. You should see it will not be running anymore.