Question:
i disabled my data execution prevention?
Twisted-1
2011-09-27 17:30:51 UTC
what will happen? boy im stupid when it comes to computers i hit a button and now it's telling me my DEP data execution prevention is disabled i just want to know is it important or not if it is how do i enable it .. thanks 10 points.. please be nice i know im stupid it's not necessary to tell me...
Three answers:
anonymous
2011-09-27 19:33:06 UTC
Twisted-...





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.

Disable Data Execution Prevention (DEP) completely



Click Start, and then click Control Panel.

Under Pick a category, click Performance and Maintenance.

Under or Pick a Control Panel icon, click System.

Click the Advanced tab, and in the Startup and Recovery area, click Settings.

In the SystemStartup area, click Edit.

In Notepad, click Edit and then click Find.

In the Find what field, type /noexecute and then click Find Next.

In the Find dialog box click Cancel.

Replace the policy_level (for example, "OptIn" default) with "AlwaysOff" (without the quotes).



WARNING: Be sure to enter the text carefully. Your boot.ini file switch should now read:



/noexecute=AlwaysOff

In Notepad, click File and then click Save.

Click OK to close Startup and Recovery.

Click OK to close System Properties and then restart your computer.



This setting does not provide any DEP coverage for any part of the system, regardless of hardware DEP support.



Verifying DEP is Disabled



Click Start, and then click Control Panel.

Under Pick a category, click Performance and Maintenance.

Under or Pick a Control Panel icon, click System.

Click the Advanced tab.

In the Performance area, click Settings and then click Data Execution Prevention.

Verify that the DEP settings are unavailable and then click OK to close Performance Settings.

Click OK to close System Properties then close Performance and Maintenance.









Prepared by PC 2011

Thank you very much ahead of time.
anonymous
2011-09-27 17:39:01 UTC
no i wont call you stupid.everyone has done something on a computer they kick themselves for.but yes it is very important to enable that feature on windows.i wish i could tell you how but i moved to ubuntu linux and that stuff doesn't concern me as much anymore.in any case please enable it.its part of your security.
Mike S
2011-09-27 18:14:38 UTC
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875352


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