What Is a Cyclic Redundancy Error in Windows XP Home Edition?

Every time your computer accesses data via Windows XP Home Edition from its hard drive or an external storage device, its processor performs a series of checks to ensure the data is being transferred properly from the drive or device. A Data Error Cyclic Redundancy Check error results if the operating system discovers a problem with the data transfer. The error can also occur while trying to install components from the Windows XP Home Edition CD-ROM.

Unknown Error While Installing Windows Live for XP

If the Win

dows Live package of communication and productivity utilities failed to install on your Windows XP computer, the problem might be due to the version of Windows Live that you attempted to install. Windows Live 2011 isn’t compatible with the Windows XP operating system, so you will need to use a different version of Windows Live.

How to Turn Off Cidaemon.Exe

Windows XP uses the Cidaemon.exe process as part of Windows Explorer's search companion file indexing service. When turned on, Cidaemon.exe allows for accurate search results due to continuous background indexing of new files. However, Cidaemon.exe also has the potential to adversely affect the performance of your computer due to the heavy memory and CPU usage. To turn off Cidaemon.exe, you must disable the search companion file indexing service.

How to Make a Drive Active on XP

Setting a disk drive or partition as Active in Windows XP enables your computer to launch an alternative operating system from that drive. This feature is generally useful for troubleshooting, as it allows you to access malfunctioning or incompatible software or hardware components. Once set as Active, the disk drive or partition takes the primary role during the computer’s startup sequence while giving secondary boot priority to all other volumes. Note that you must have administrative access to set a drive as Active.

Why You Need to Abandon Windows XP Soon

Microsoft released Windows XP way back in October 2001. It was the first substantial upgrade to the Windows 95 family of operating systems, which included the so-so Windows 98 and the belly flop that was Windows ME.