Data Execution Prevention (DEP) with Windows Explorer

[Guest]

For the past few few weeks, I have been hounded by DEP (Data Execution
Prevention).

I have a Sony VAIO Computer not even a year old. Until recently, I had no
problems. However, now, whenever I run Windows Explorer, it is shutdown by
the standard DEP error message. After a few weeks of this, I did a clean
install. Without even installed a single other program installed, the error
messages returned.

I went into the System panel in Control Panel and opted out of protection
for Windows Explorer... NO CHANGE!!! It runs 30 seconds to a few minutes and
still shuts down.

Determined, I browsed the Microsoft site and found out the ins and outs of
DEP. Today, I went so far as to edit the boot.ini file to turn DEP completely
off (/NoExecute=AlwaysOff)... STILL NO CHANGE!!!

What is it? / What can I do?

With DEP turned completely off (no options even available in System Control
Panel), I still can not use Windows Explorer. I am guessing it is some
conflict with a fairly recent XP2 update, but I'm not sure.

 

[Richard Urban [MVP]]

Do you have one of the newer AMD processors that have DEP built into the
chip? If so, see if it can be turned off in the bios.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"

 

[Guest]

The DEP function in the System Control Panel says it does not have built-in
DEP, but I am unable to verify.

It is a "GenuineIntel Family 15 Model 3 3.2 GHz Stepping 4" with BIOS of
"AMI - 11000416 BIOS Date: 11/16/04 15:31:07 Ver: 08.00.10".

Thanks for responding.