Hardware profiles are used in multiple environments such as LAN, mobile and standalone. You can create hardware profiles in Windows XP Professional by doing the following steps.
1. Click start > Settings > Control Panel > double click system
2. Click hardware and the hardware profile. You can select eight docked or undocked profile.
3. Click copy type the profile name such as mobile and click Ok
4. Click mobile > Properties > and check this is a portable computer
5. Provides a description of the profile.