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WinXP steals your bandwidth

By Red Wolf

3 December 2001

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In Technology

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Windows XP helps itself to 20% of your bandwidth, a useful tip at TweakXP reveals. But although this sounds like the sort of thing that could easily fuel paranoia, it’s more just a case of sloppy and wasteful configuration

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