Vista - Windows Mail and Data Execution Prevention (DEP) errors

Lately, Windows Mail has been giving me a lot of Data Execution
Prevention (DEP) errors, mainly when I do a database compression
after reading a storage folder in the rather extensive Recovered
Messages folder tree I got after deleting the wrong files in the
Windows Mail directory, with the result that essentially all the
newsgroup posts it stored were moved into a tree under Recovered
Messages.

Also, a lot of previously hidden messages (possibly because the
files that are supposed to contain them are actually empty)
became visible again, and finding all of these empty files and deleting
them is a rather slow operation.

Do you know anything in particular about preventing DEP errors in
Windows Mail? For example, is turning off detection of such errors
in Windows Mail safe? That's about all the help file page for such
errors suggests can be done.

I've tried switching to Windows Live Mail, but only plan to continue
trying if I can get a second chance at the failed import of all the posts
under Windows Mail, and can find where most of its commands are
hidden - the buttons I see on its toolbar just don't offer enough of
the choices Windows Mail can handle.

Robert Miles

Have you upgraded to IE8 and/or is Google Toolbar installed?

WMUtil is a small utility to allow users to compact and repair the Windows
Mail database in Windows Vista.
http://www.oehelp.com/WMUtil/Default.aspx
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002
www.banthecheck.com


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