On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 02:07:24 GMT, Leythos wrote:
says...

The point is, if his "brand new Dell" is also using a brand new Intel
Pentium 4 with hardware DEP support, and he compares mileage with a
year-old Dell that lacks hardware DEP support, his mileage will vary
alright - but not because his "machine is screwed".

And if his brand-new Dell can't run Wordpad and IE then there is
something wrong, because it didn't ship that way.

I'm with you there.

Did it ship with XP SP2?
Did the original install disable DEP via Boot.ini?
Has some non-DEP-compatible app been installed?
Is there a code file broken in such a way as to fall foul of DEP?

If all of that model did ship this way, we'd have heard about it by
now. So it's likely to be something like one of the above, or a
subtle hardware issue that's progressively developed since delivery.



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