A way to view/control a Windows mach. from a Mac

Hello,
I'm running latest ver. of OSX and ARD.. all of the systems that I manage are Mac's but one. running Win-XP.. can some one point me to where I can find info. in how to connect to the Win machine using ARD?
TIA
Oscar A.

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