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bekers71

bekers71

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Ok so a friend of mine has a Sony Vaio laptop, Win XP I'm pretty sure. Today he turned it on and as windows came on a box popped up saying DEP (Data Execution Prevention) is blocking all programs. I have never had this issue before so I'm not sure what to tell him to do. He can't afford a new computer so that's out for now. How do I fix this problem?

Any ideas??

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Hit it ;)

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Seriously though, i don't know.
Have you tried googling it?
 
From Microsoft.

Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a set of hardware and software technologies that perform additional checks on memory to help prevent malicious code from running on a system. In Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005, DEP is enforced by hardware and by software.

The primary benefit of DEP is to help prevent code execution from data pages. Typically, code is not executed from the default heap and the stack. Hardware-enforced DEP detects code that is running from these locations and raises an exception when execution occurs. Software-enforced DEP can help prevent malicious code from taking advantage of exception-handling mechanisms in Windows.
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The fix can be found here.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875352
 
I'm an IT Guy and i'm not finding much on how to fix that. When it happens with one application Microsoft says to contact the application's company. I'm not sure what happens when it happens with Windows. Are you sure that the copy of Windows is not pirated? That might be the cause. In any case the only fix that I see is re-installing it.

Chris
 
hoho19 said:
I'm an IT Guy and i'm not finding much on how to fix that. When it happens with one application Microsoft says to contact the application's company. I'm not sure what happens when it happens with Windows. Are you sure that the copy of Windows is not pirated? That might be the cause. In any case the only fix that I see is re-installing it.

Chris
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Thanks for your reply. The laptop was bought new from a military base at the PX, like a wal-mart for those that dont know. LOL So I would say the software is legal. I will tell him to try and reinstall, maybe that will work. Thanks again. :)
 
Before you re-image the beast you may want to yank out the hard drive. Stick it into another PC and run a virus check, etc. against it. See if that helps (probably won't but what the heck).

Last but not least... while it's out, copy the user data off so a restore of his data after a re-install makes your buddy a bit happier.
 
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