Guest eljainc Posted September 16, 2008 Posted September 16, 2008 Hello, I have a WinXP notebook running XP Home SP2. There is a folder of AVI files which causes me problems. When scanning/viewing these AVI files, I often get the following error message popup: Data Execution Prevention To help protect your computer, Windows has closed this application. These AVI files were encoded with DIVX (version 6.1). I have tried changing the swtich in BOOT.INI from /noexecute=OptIn to /noexecute=AlwaysOff This turns off DEP, but I still get exception errors. I have since left DEP on. What causes this problem with AVI files? What is the fix for this? Thanks Mike
Guest ju.c Posted September 17, 2008 Posted September 17, 2008 Re: Data Execution Prevention when scanning AVI files in explorer The problem may be this AVI Properties registry key, export it then delete it and restart: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}] Another method is to un-register the file: shmedia.dll. Open the Run box and enter: regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll ju.c "eljainc" <eljainc@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:a78ac1bc-40b8-4a0b-b1ca-f8e25519ec03@34g2000hsh.googlegroups.com... > Hello, > > I have a WinXP notebook running XP Home SP2. There is a folder of AVI > files which causes me problems. When scanning/viewing these AVI files, > I often get the following error message popup: > > Data Execution Prevention > > To help protect your computer, Windows has closed this application. > > These AVI files were encoded with DIVX (version 6.1). > > > I have tried changing the swtich in BOOT.INI from > /noexecute=OptIn > to > /noexecute=AlwaysOff > > This turns off DEP, but I still get exception errors. I have since > left DEP on. > > What causes this problem with AVI files? What is the fix for this? > > Thanks > Mike
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