I went to Windows Update today. I was up-to-date with the Criticals but I noticed that the number of other updates was up, so I went and had a look.

In there was one recommended for XP SP1 and its little blurb said "The Advanced Networking Pack for Windows XP is a set of platform technologies designed for the use and deployment of advanced networking solutions. It includes an updated IPv6 stack supporting NAT traversal for IPv6 applications, an IPv6 firewall, and a peer-to-peer platform for writing distributed solutions. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer". I use peer-to-peer on the subject XP-home machine so I thought I should investigate the 'read more'.

Unfortunately, the subject document "817778 - Overview of the Advanced Networking Pack for Windows XP" was full of jargon that I know nothing about. I can't tell if it is good or not. Worse, I can't tell if it will be useful or harmful to my ALREADY WORKING NICELY THANK YOU system.

1) Has anyone installed this and encountered any problems?... or any neat feature that was really really helpful?

2) Does anyone know where there might be an English rendition of what this is all about?

Thanks in advance