Games recently crashing my laptop

[Jimmie]

1st laptop specs:

OS: Windows XP sp2
Processor: P4
Memory: 512 DDR
AGP: ATi 16 mb DDR
HD: 10GB main, partition 8 GB

OK here's the problem I have had issues were my laptop while playing games
like Command & Conqure Zero Hour and just yesterday Star Trek Starfleet
Command II have literally crashed my laptop (Please NOTE: This has neVER EVer
happened) untlil recently. Now here's where it gets REALLY weird after the
laptop turns literally off and I boot it back up I have this program called
"Winpatrol" it's like a watch dog program and tell me if it's ok to allow
'Java applet' to run. I click no. But then I check the Task Manager to see if
Java is running in the background and it's not. I know its running because
every time my laptop crashes and I boot it up again I am prompted by
WinPatrol and asks if it's ok to run Java. Or maybe it's not could it be
'DEP' not allowing my games to not function correctly. I'd also like to know
how can Windows really collect the debbug data from the crash because this
issue has just started to crash my laptop nothing else crashes it? Please
help thank you.

 

[Allan]

1st laptop specs:

OS: Windows XP sp2
Processor: P4
Memory: 512 DDR
AGP: ATi 16 mb DDR
HD: 10GB main, partition 8 GB

OK here's the problem I have had issues were my laptop while playing games
like Command & Conqure Zero Hour and just yesterday Star Trek Starfleet
Command II have literally crashed my laptop (Please NOTE: This has neVER
EVer
happened) untlil recently. Now here's where it gets REALLY weird after the
laptop turns literally off and I boot it back up I have this program
called
"Winpatrol" it's like a watch dog program and tell me if it's ok to allow
'Java applet' to run. I click no. But then I check the Task Manager to see
if
Java is running in the background and it's not. I know its running because
every time my laptop crashes and I boot it up again I am prompted by
WinPatrol and asks if it's ok to run Java. Or maybe it's not could it be
'DEP' not allowing my games to not function correctly. I'd also like to
know
how can Windows really collect the debbug data from the crash because this
issue has just started to crash my laptop nothing else crashes it? Please
help thank you.

Jimmy, run "Set Program Access and Defaults" and check what your JVM is set
to be. There are two JVMs, MS and Sun. Maybe you should either uninstall
the JVM or update to a current version for security reasons. If you block
the Java applet from running using a security program there is no reason
that Java will be running "in the background" as you fear.