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@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A72E6A13-7F9B-439B-866E-C1751A8630C3@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> 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[/color]

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@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A72E6A13-7F9B-439B-866E-C1751A8630C3@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> 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[/color]

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



"Tyro" <Tyro@tyros.com> wrote in message
news:_ED6l.9180$W06.2088@flpi148.ffdc.sbc.com...[color=blue]
> 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@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A72E6A13-7F9B-439B-866E-C1751A8630C3@microsoft.com...[color=green]
>> 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[/color]
>[/color]