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 ---------------------------------------------------------------