Hi, Paula-- what I didn't say outright is: it may be a good thing to try to figure out what is causing DEP to get triggered; from what MS says, it could be viral activity--or something else, maybe. Just be cautious. Other list members: Anyone else know more about this than I do?? Sr. Dorothy On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Paula <biggmamma5@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Thank you very much...I went to the website & printed out the information & > my husband is going to try it tomorrow when he has more time(busy day today > cleaning up all the broken branches & limbs from our storms Fri & Sat & part > of yesterday<we're in Va. Beach & got a lot of wind & rain for 3-4 days>). > I sure hope this will work. Thank you again.. :~) Paula > Don't know a lot about this, but a search turned up a number of items, > among > them this from Microsoft. I'm not really sure it will answer the question > of 'what to do' since DEP is a 'feature' that prevents a program from > running in an unexpected way... Is your husband running antivirus > software? > See this link for MS's info: > > http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Data-Execution-Prevention-frequently-asked-questions > --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk OR To subscribe to the mailing list, send an email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject. To unsubscribe send email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject. To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join our separate PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------