Vista - DEP is driving me nuts; please help!

Hello,

I hope someone can help me. I have a Gateway MX8734 Notebook computer. It
has Vista Home Premium Sp1 and I keep it fully updated to the best of my
knowledge. I have 83 GB of free hard drive space and 2 GB of RAM. Most of the
time my Notebook uses around 39% to 46% of the RAM.

I came to this group to find away to disable the Data Execution Protection,
which I did thanks to Joe Duffy. After reading everyone's responses to Joe's
message I see DEP has another use other then driving me nuts. So I would
rather see if someone can help me fix the problem instead of disabling DEP. I
must add I saw where someone wrote;

"The only time DEP will come into play is if you visit a bad website or try
to run programs that shouldn't be run".

That statement is not true on my Notebook. I have the most problems with
DEP running 2 Microsoft programs: Microsoft Works Calendar & Windows Mail.
When I try to update an appointment in my Works Calendar, DEP will cause the
program to close and I lose my changes. DEP also causes Windows Mail to close
when I run Spell Checker when writing emails. Of course when this happens I
lose the email I was writing. I try to remember to save my emails before
running Spell checker. Of course it took a while to remember so I have lost
quite a few emails, some long ones, before I started remembering.

I still forget to save my email from time to time and I am real tired of
the problems DEP is causing me. It has become such a problem that I want to
disable DEP if I can't get it working properly. Since I don't want to leave
my Notebook open for attacks I am hoping someone here can help me. Thank you!

Happy New Year,
James

DEP has nothing to do with whatever problem you are having. DEP prevents
code from executing within a section of the computer's memory designated as
data, not executable code. DEP protects you. To disable that is foolish.

Tyro

Flyerfan27" <Flyerfan27@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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The programs that are giving you problems are either infected with a virus
or are defective and should be replaced or have a service pack for them
installed.

"Flyerfan27" <Flyerfan27@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Tyro,

Thanks for replying to my question and for your help. I believe the problem
I am having with the 2 programs is being caused by the DEP. Everytime one of
the 2 programs shut down I get an icon in the task bar. When I click on the
icon a help window pops up telling me about DEP and how to set it up to
ignore different programs. If the problem is not caused by the DEP why would
I keep getting this help window?

Would it hurt anything to disable the DEP just long enough to see if I can
run the 2 programs without having any problems? I would just try this on my
own, but Joe's instructions only tells you how to disable the DEP. I would
not know how to re-enable it when I was done.

Thanks again,
James



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