Data Execution and Prevention

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Hi everyone, and thanks in advance for your expertise.
My system will not allow me to access my files in "my music" section of "My
Documents." It closes the window with the message "data execution and
administration". I learned that I can access certain folders by going
through the "open host folder" in the Windows Media Library index, but that
stopped allowing me access also. I'm real "green" (a newbie) to computers,
and admit to being pretty lame at comprehending reports. Any suggestions as
to what I should do next?
 
Any said:
You can always turn off Dep;
To disable DEP, you have to make a change to the BOOT.INI file in the
root of the partition from which the computer boots. To boot into safe
mode, press F8 a few times after the BIOS has finished its booting and
Windows begins to load. Once you have booted into safe mode, use these
steps:

Right-click on My Computer and select Properties.
Click on the Advanced tab.
Click on the third button—settings for system start options.
Click on the Edit button to edit the boot.ini file.
Carefully edit the /NoExecute=OptIn string and change it to AlwaysOff.
This part at the end of the line should now read: /NoExecute=AlwaysOff

Save and close the dialog boxes by clicking on OK.
Best,
Treeman
 
daBrat said:
Hi everyone, and thanks in advance for your expertise.
My system will not allow me to access my files in "my music" section
of "My Documents." It closes the window with the message "data
execution and administration". I learned that I can access certain
folders by going through the "open host folder" in the Windows Media
Library index, but that stopped allowing me access also. I'm real
"green" (a newbie) to computers, and admit to being pretty lame at
comprehending reports. Any suggestions as to what I should do next?

You could follow Treeman's instrstrctions and turn off DEP. You will be able
to access the files but whatever is causing the problem will still be there.
It is likely you have installed some multimedia program that is causing the
problem. When you access the folder with the files in it this program is
called by Windows if it is in the right-click context menu. Did the problem
start soon after you installed a video or audio program? Some versions of
divx and winamp commonly cause this. There may be others as well.

Kerry
 
Kerry Brown said:
You could follow Treeman's instrstrctions and turn off DEP. You will be able
to access the files but whatever is causing the problem will still be there.
It is likely you have installed some multimedia program that is causing the
problem. When you access the folder with the files in it this program is
called by Windows if it is in the right-click context menu. Did the problem
start soon after you installed a video or audio program? Some versions of
divx and winamp commonly cause this. There may be others as well.

Kerry
Yes! As a matter of fact, it did start while I was downloading some
files/programs off the internet. That has been my fear...that it is a virus
or something because of it.
 
daBrat said:
Yes! As a matter of fact, it did start while I was downloading some
files/programs off the internet. That has been my fear...that it is a
virus or something because of it.

What multimedia programs do you have installed? Video/DVD/audio players?
 
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