One of the slickest features of Windows XP is Remote Desktop (also known as "Terminal Services".)  This little utility allows you to connect to another XP box and (you'll never guess) control it remotely.  There are 2 primary ways of running RD:

1. From the run prompt, type "mstsc", and click OK:

2. Select is from the start menu:

One of the most useful abilities of RD is copying and pasting files between your host XP session and your remote XP session.  In order to enable this behavior, you must enable the connecting of diskdrives when connecting to a remote computer:

Here's an interesting Virtual PC factoid I found the other day: There are 3 types of data you can copy from a guest operating system to a host operating system in Microsoft Virtual PC 2004:

• Text (CF_TEXT)
• Bitmap (CF_BITMAP)
• Unicode Text (CF_UNICODETEXT)

- http://www.kbalertz.com/Feedback_906513.aspx

So now you know.