I wonder what happens if you click "What should I do?" "erm... that shouldn't happen.... just reformat. if it happens again, bitch at us for a refund and when you get denied then go download a linux distro using the bit-torrent protocol we hate so much by getting the torrent file through firefox, just to mock us. wait, did I say that? I'm SO getting fired..."
What this DEP thing is: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...SP1/b0de1052-4101-44c3-a294-4da1bd1ef227.mspx Read it? So now you understand why its good and worthwhile? Or do you think a hobbiest OS which dosen't support that is better? Whats most likely happens in these cases is you've got some OLE stuff registered thats 'leaking' and DEP kicks in to protect against this (sometimes a memory leak is just going to waste say 100k of VM, sometimes its going to overwrite a constant and allow other programs to get past.) Remeber 'Explorer' (probably the worst part of NT) is like an front end, to a mirriad of OLE plugins. Now becuase the plugin runs in the proccess space of Explorer (stupid OLE) with no real distinction between it (except in the "technical" report). Anyway the link above should teach you enough to track down what coursed it, if its a continuing error.
Animus... I think the point was that MS had to shut itself down to protect the computer. It's just irony, not a big concern.
Windows had to close a core part of itself to protect itself It's kind of like Ford saying 'in order to prevent crash injuries please do not buy a car/ford'
I love that somehow they need an error message to tell us explorer is a security threat. Like we didn't know that. And some days, the hobbyist OS would win hands-down. People put a lot of effort into their hobbies, often way more than they put into their jobs. When you do it as a hobby, if it frustrates you, you take a little break and come back to it...or maybe even get someone else to look at it at their leisure. When it's your job, you find the quickest way to get the error to go away before your deadline is due, and you don't hand it off so that you don't look incompetent.
i think you didn't follow the link Explorer has many 'plugins' now odds are it was one of them that coursed it, and my money would be on a 3rd party one, what was likely happening is something was leaking. It was shut down to stop this. You can't ask an OS to do more than that (well not until longhorn comes out) and NT is decades ahead of the competition in this kind of thing. (Outside of java code that is).
I didn't need to read the link to know that the point of this thread is the irony of the message, not the whole concept of the NX bit and DEP. I know what DEP is and know it's quite useful in many places. This thread is about the humor behind the error.
the catch with the special olympics: win or lose, you're still a retard and you know what? I boo at any retard. There's something about being near people that have an IQ a hundred less than me that just irritates me. you just don't have a sense of humor. windows closed itself to protect the computer. it's funny. that's all that this thread is about! I suppose with you being one of about four people on the forum that don't hate MS products (although many use them grugingly (sp??), myself included) you have to explain the technical reason instead of laugh about it and move on.
Animus is right, one of the COM components or Explorer attachments could be leaking and DEP would shutdown both parent and child processes which include exporer.exe as the com's parent. I have never had that happen to me because I don't have any explorer attachments (with the exception of context menus). The recycle bin is damn funny though lol
