Some great features that you can do in Windows XP revolve around network connections. In Windows 2000/2000 Professional to see your IP address, Gateway, DNS, etc… you needed to go to the command prompt and manually type in the ‘ipconfig’ command, but in XP there is a great feature if you double click on your network connection while you are connected and there is a new tab labeled ‘details’, it provides you with the same info with simply a double click instead of having to run the command prompt.
In addition, there is another command that you used to have to run in the command prompt; “ipconfig