Data Execution Protection... WTF?!?!
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Hi, folks! Quite often I'm opening explorer windows when suddenly I get a warning dialog named "Data Execution Protection" followed by a second one titled "Windows Explorer", saying it is sorry but it encountered a problem and needs to close. Acknowledging that closes any open Explorer windows. Dialog 1[^] Dialog 2[^] This is getting quite annoying! Is there anyone out there in CP Land who can identify the problem and how to fix it? Or, point me to a resource with which I can help myself. TIA!
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Hi, folks! Quite often I'm opening explorer windows when suddenly I get a warning dialog named "Data Execution Protection" followed by a second one titled "Windows Explorer", saying it is sorry but it encountered a problem and needs to close. Acknowledging that closes any open Explorer windows. Dialog 1[^] Dialog 2[^] This is getting quite annoying! Is there anyone out there in CP Land who can identify the problem and how to fix it? Or, point me to a resource with which I can help myself. TIA!
'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse
My guess is that it has to do with a shell extension. Do you have any shell extensions installed?
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Hi, folks! Quite often I'm opening explorer windows when suddenly I get a warning dialog named "Data Execution Protection" followed by a second one titled "Windows Explorer", saying it is sorry but it encountered a problem and needs to close. Acknowledging that closes any open Explorer windows. Dialog 1[^] Dialog 2[^] This is getting quite annoying! Is there anyone out there in CP Land who can identify the problem and how to fix it? Or, point me to a resource with which I can help myself. TIA!
'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse
Dialog2 wrote:
If you were in the middle of something
no comment :rolleyes: As the other guy said, probably a shell extension that uses dynamic code generation. (e.g. an shell extension using ATL, which does WndProc thunking)
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Hi, folks! Quite often I'm opening explorer windows when suddenly I get a warning dialog named "Data Execution Protection" followed by a second one titled "Windows Explorer", saying it is sorry but it encountered a problem and needs to close. Acknowledging that closes any open Explorer windows. Dialog 1[^] Dialog 2[^] This is getting quite annoying! Is there anyone out there in CP Land who can identify the problem and how to fix it? Or, point me to a resource with which I can help myself. TIA!
'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse
If I were you I would test for malicious code using an up-to-date virus scanner. Also have a look at what gets started at boot time. Check with Windows Update for any outstanding security updates. If you are satisfied that your machine is clean and you are still having this problem, you can alter the DEP settings via the Control Panel --> System --> Advanced tab --> Performance --> Settings --> Data Execution Prevention tab then make changes (as Administrator) as you require but be warned about security issues in making changes here.
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Hi, folks! Quite often I'm opening explorer windows when suddenly I get a warning dialog named "Data Execution Protection" followed by a second one titled "Windows Explorer", saying it is sorry but it encountered a problem and needs to close. Acknowledging that closes any open Explorer windows. Dialog 1[^] Dialog 2[^] This is getting quite annoying! Is there anyone out there in CP Land who can identify the problem and how to fix it? Or, point me to a resource with which I can help myself. TIA!
'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse
I had the same problem on my old laptop. It occured whenver I clicked, or right-clicked, on certain AVI files in Windows Explorer. The files in question were from my Canon A75 digital camera. I'm guessing that some kind of extension or dodgy driver was present that was screwing this up. I fixed it by having 2 boot options, one with DEP enabled and one without. This article[^] tells you how to disable DEP by modifying boot.ini
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Hi, folks! Quite often I'm opening explorer windows when suddenly I get a warning dialog named "Data Execution Protection" followed by a second one titled "Windows Explorer", saying it is sorry but it encountered a problem and needs to close. Acknowledging that closes any open Explorer windows. Dialog 1[^] Dialog 2[^] This is getting quite annoying! Is there anyone out there in CP Land who can identify the problem and how to fix it? Or, point me to a resource with which I can help myself. TIA!
'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse
I'm assuming there's a detailed description of the error in your event logs. Maybe that will help you track down the offending application.
Todd Smith
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I'm assuming there's a detailed description of the error in your event logs. Maybe that will help you track down the offending application.
Todd Smith
Todd Smith wrote:
I'm assuming there's a detailed description of the error in your event logs
Thanks; didn't think of that. Here's what I found:
Event Type: Error Event Source: Application Error Event Category: (100) Event ID: 1000 Date: 1/30/2007 Time: 5:52:03 PM User: N/A Computer: OFFICE Description: Faulting application explorer.exe, version 6.0.2900.2180, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x0237216a. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Data: 0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat 0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail 0010: 75 72 65 20 20 65 78 70 ure exp 0018: 6c 6f 72 65 72 2e 65 78 lorer.ex 0020: 65 20 36 2e 30 2e 32 39 e 6.0.29 0028: 30 30 2e 32 31 38 30 20 00.2180 0030: 69 6e 20 75 6e 6b 6e 6f in unkno 0038: 77 6e 20 30 2e 30 2e 30 wn 0.0.0 0040: 2e 30 20 61 74 20 6f 66 .0 at of 0048: 66 73 65 74 20 30 32 33 fset 023 0050: 37 32 31 36 61 7216aThere's a whole bunch of entries like this, but with slightly different fault addresses (0x0237216a, 0x021a216a, 0x0216216a and similar). Does this mean something to anyone? TIA!'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse
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Hi, folks! Quite often I'm opening explorer windows when suddenly I get a warning dialog named "Data Execution Protection" followed by a second one titled "Windows Explorer", saying it is sorry but it encountered a problem and needs to close. Acknowledging that closes any open Explorer windows. Dialog 1[^] Dialog 2[^] This is getting quite annoying! Is there anyone out there in CP Land who can identify the problem and how to fix it? Or, point me to a resource with which I can help myself. TIA!
'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse
I saw it on a professors laptop when he booted it up connected to the projector, other than that I have never seen it. Based on the performance of my Prof's laptop I would guess its Fubar.
Matt Newman
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My guess is that it has to do with a shell extension. Do you have any shell extensions installed?
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
any shell extensions installed?
Nothing that I can think of. Is there a tool I can use to find out?
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