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6 Things You Should Avoid During XP Operation

Warning! There are 6 things you should avoid during xp operation. And what are they one by one, please read the following information to broaden your horizon about xp operation right now.

1. Avoid installing Virtual drive

At present, functionalities of majority number of Virtual drive are not that stable, and PC crashes are easy to happen with it available in your computer. Because, what differ Virtual drive from other kinds of software is that it can deceive XP operating system in the “Device Manager” and pretend itself as a physical disk drive though a special mechanism. On the other hand, compatibility between xp and Virtual drive has been always poor from now on in that XP is designatedly optimized for NTFS and Network, but Virtual drive is developed under FAT32 circumstance. Such the case being, XP will restore the hardware drives, but not expect to delete or restore the hardware itself. And if you insist on installing Virtual drive, you should bear system crashes and slashes from time to time.

2. Avoid invalidated date

XP equipped with the corresponding date test affiliated to test activation mechanism will not detect any invalidated date, for example 2001. To be specific, having entered into the main interface of “Welcoming”, you can not move into the next stage any more. Therefore, being unaware of those outdated date, it will be very extremely difficult to start XP operating system. In other words, you should be careful to initiate date of XP.

3. Avoid switching off power of Outer Modem

XP is designated for FOR 2000 or NT, and it not that workable with Outer Modem: Drivers related to Outer Modem are always unmatchable with XP operating system, and Drivers of FOR 2000 or NT should be installed to replaced the original ones to operate in normal mode. Worse still, dial abnormalities will happen accordingly. Particularly, when power of Outer Modem is off, hardware cannot be founded after entering into the main graphics interface. Under such circumstance, you should update modem scanning hardware or reboot XP operating system again to render this situation normal.

4. Avoid opening sharing by default and remote assistance as well

XP is part of Net strategy implementation of Microsoft, many Networking features such as sharing your Driver, solving Windows operation problems through remote assistance will be activated when sharing by default is open. Obviously, those networking features will bring many conveniences; However, compute port openness as well as lessening certain permission with sharing Driver and remote assistance open will create the opportunity for virus and hackers. So, when you are familiar with Network security and there is no need for you to run Lan networking, it is always advisable to close sharing and remote assistance.

5. Avoid installing Windows 9X in the same partitions of XP

XP is NT-based, but WINNT is not its corresponding files by default. And when you have installed XP, the directory will named itself for Windows instead. Therefore, if another operating system of Windows 9X has been installed in the same partition, boot menu of multiple operating system will be undermined, and it is possible to replace the original XP files with that of Windows 9X. Therefore, independent partitions for respective operating system is highly recommended to you. And also, lower operating system should come first before XP in case of multi-booting menu renovation.

6. Avoid XP standby or hibernation in machine supported by ACPI

Running standby or hibernation in machinery equipped with ACPI will cause abnormalities of sound card when XP is to reboot again due to its power supply and motherboard features.

On the other hand, hardware should be closed in standby and hibernation mode. However, power cannot be turned off and even hardware closure cannot be completed before standby or hibernation has been operated in operating system supported by ACPI. Worse still, hardware will be active in seconds, and powerful current impacts will be taken place before write head to reset. Therefore, lifetime of Hard disk will be greatly affected.

In conclusion, bugs are detected when hibernation and standby is run under XP operating system, it is imperative to replace a better power supply or motherboard. Otherwise, standby and hibernation functions is not advisable to run by you.

By the way, maitain your XP operating system in optimal state, Drivers attached to shoud be also optimized to latest version as well. So, official HP Drivers software of Driver Detective is highly recommended to you.