[portej05]

well at least we know that dep works

But not every DEP error is a problem
There was one in ATL a little while ago that manifested when DEP was turned on under XP

EDIT: Found the source The OldNewThing

[Sushi]

This is kind of the problem with IE. For the End user, it works just fine. But for Web designers, they have (or had) to work around all the little things IE does (or did) wrong. Couple that with the fact that there are still people around who use IE6 (which is worse in terms of standards compliance than any other current Browser), and you have a whole lot of angry web designers.

Yep. Really, I have no problem with IE7 or IE8. IE6, though, I hate with a fiery passion. IE7 and IE8 are fine as long as you set the right doctype so they aren't intentionally being "IE6-stupid."

[Flipside]

I'm wondering whether IE is the actual problem, could it be that something is trying to kick off IE in order to access the Internet in some way, and it's that which is triggering the response because the system sees that as an unauthorized access?

[Scotty]

Related back to the beginning of the thread:

I was re-installing StarCraft a couple days ago, and I couldn't get it to work right.  I clicked on "diagnose the problem" and it actually came back as saying the VISTA(!) was the problem.

[haloboy100]

I'm wondering whether IE is the actual problem, could it be that something is trying to kick off IE in order to access the Internet in some way, and it's that which is triggering the response because the system sees that as an unauthorized access?

Yeah, AVG is continually reporting infected files every few hours, and one of them being a trojan that has infected a "white listed" file, which is apparently a vital system file that is dangerous to remove. I havn't had any trouble other than a slight performance slowdown and some game crashes from this "virus", though.

It does give me a random beep from time to time, though...the default windows beep you get from like when you're asked a question during installation of a game.

[NGTM-1R]

That is because it makes your inactive memory bigger. It's preloaded into the system.

The problem with this statement of course being that I can, y'know, look at the running processes and see the lie to it. And also that I should be able to detect a gaming performance drop, which does not occur.

[Mongoose]

The question then becomes why one would leave a browser window open while gaming, outside of straight-up browser-based games.

[NGTM-1R]

The question then becomes why one would leave a browser window open while gaming, outside of straight-up browser-based games.

So you don't have to find it again, and become inudated with bookmarks either, etc. etc...hell there are things I'll spend days reading between gaming sessions.

[redsniper]

Because Firefox can't remember what pages were open when you close it. Oh wait...

[haloboy100]

....uh, yes, it does. As well as all the tabs, if you flick on a setting in the options.

[NGTM-1R]

Because Firefox can't remember what pages were open when you close it. Oh wait...

Effort.

[Mongoose]

The question then becomes why one would leave a browser window open while gaming, outside of straight-up browser-based games.

So you don't have to find it again, and become inudated with bookmarks either, etc. etc...hell there are things I'll spend days reading between gaming sessions.

As someone who has to have well over 1000 bookmarks by now, I fail to see the problem with said inundation.

[haloboy100]

I only have, like, five.

and they're all conveniently placed on my toolbar