Vista - DEP - Enable or Disable

hey i disabled DEP on my computer to get rid of the COM Surrogate error, and it worked for a bit, but now it's back. what do i do?

Hi Scissormetimbers,

For the Com Surrogate error, you might try the suggestions here to see if they can help you.

Fix for COM Surrogate Has Stopped Working Error in Vista :: the How-To Geek

Hope this helps,
Shawn

i tried this but unfortunately it does not work for the 64 bit version of vista

Did you read through all of the replies there to see if you had any of the mentioned programs or WMP codecs installed that may have caused the DEP problem?

yes i read that DivX was one of the causes so i uninstalled it and it keeps coming back.

The only other thing I can recommend it doing a Repair install.

Repair Install For Vista

Hope it helps,
Shawn

thanks shawn ill give it a try

Your welcome.

Help ! Thanks (in advance) for all the expert help here. I had/have a problem with IE7 crashing any time I close a window or tab, so decided to disable DEP via the command prompt route. Now though things have got even worse and windows refuses to start

The initial screen offers me "Launch Startup Repair" or "Start Windows Normally". The former just doesn't get anywhere - i.e. it looks to fail doing whatever it's trying to within one second. And the latter goes through the motions and then brings me back to the same screen.

I also tried safe mode but that won't start...

Help...I appear to have killed my machine!

Alas, it's a Dell, so I don't have the full retail version Vista DVD, indeed not even a backup that I know where it is....

Can I reverse the bcpedit.exe command from this screen somewhere?

thanks again
Mark

Hi Mark, and welcome to Vista Forums.

This tutorial will show you how to create a Recovery Disc that you can use to try and run Startup Repair from it instead to see if it can run this way. If that does not help, then you also have an option to boot to a Command Prompt to use the command: bcdedit.exe /set {current} nx OptIn

Create a Recovery Disc


If this all fails, then your Dell computer should have a Recovery Partition that you can boot with to do a clean reinstall of Vista. This link will show you how to.

Dell - Support

Hope this helps,
Shawn