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by hotrodgers

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i have a new workstation that has the new win xp pro and i assume sp2 on it and i keep getting this irritating dep message and when you close out of it it throws you out of everything... is there a way to turn that off to not use it? i saw where you turn it off for all programs but cannot get it to turn off for windows default programs? any suggestions would be greatly appreciated..thanks

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by rewrite

You can disable dep in the boot ini file by adding the noexecute command in the os line and setting it to alwaysoff. It would look like this:

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /noexecute=alwaysoff

There are other switches as well and are explained here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ddtools/hh/ddtools/BootIni_aff45176-bd02-43cf-9895-c212fa392de2.xml.asp

Cheers.

RW

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