Thursday, December 31, 2009

Data Execution Prevention - Internet Explorer

Data Execution Prevention can be turned off completely, but it's kind of a pain.  If you find that it's only interfering with Internet Explorer, then this is any easy fix.

Symptoms:  Either Internet Explorer quickly shuts down on its own or you see the following window appear when trying to open the browser:


1.  Go to Start > Run and type the following:  inetcpl.cpl

2.  Press OK and the Internet Explorer Options window will appear.

3.  Go to the Advanced tab.

4.  Uncheck "Enable memory protection to help mitigate online attacks*"  (It's near the bottom)

5.  Click OK and Internet Explorer should open just fine.

4 comments:

  1. Be advised this solution does not work in Windows Vista. The selection is grayed out. The box is checked and the checkmark cannot be removed.

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  2. See http://blogs.msdn.com/ieinternals/archive/2009/10/10/Understanding-Data-Execution-Prevention-Crashes-in-IE8.aspx for an explanation of the security risk of doing this.

    To "Anonymous" above, you need to run the Control Panel as Adminstrator to ungrey the checkbox.

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  3. I have Windows 7 and DEP KEEPS CLOSING Internet Expolorer before i open it. Help?

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  4. Updating java worked for me

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