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[XP_2600]

I have XP clients in windows 2000 Domain controller, after installing service pack 2 i noticed that the machines keep warning users before opening any files and dont show again option is grayed, i looked in the group policy but i didnt find any related object, this warning coming up even when the user click in a shortcut, are you sure you want to open blh.lnk it may contain virus and so on, its an annoying feature any tweak to disable it ?

[N1K]

You should edit the boot.ini file and change the /NoExecute=OptIn to /NoExecute=AlwaysOff

Hope this helps..

[XP_2600]

Are you sure that, the No excution is the reason ?

[Synapse]

I'm about 85% sure that is whats causing it...

There are actually other settings:

/NoExecute=OptIn (enables DEP for Windows system files)

/NoExecute=OptOut (enables systemwide DEP)

/NoExecute=AlwaysOn (enables systemwide DEP without possibility of individual application exclusion)

/NoExecute=AlwaysOff (disables DEP completely)

you probably have it set to /NoExecute=AlwaysOn

but you should set it to /NoExecute=AlwaysOff if that doesn't fix it post here and i'll look it up more.

good luck.

[N1K]

I think that XP_2600 wanted to completely turn off the DEP so the best solution would be to edit boot.ini file and enter /NoExecute=AlwaysOff (disables DEP completely)

or

you can edit the registry key in folder:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\

and key

SystemStartOptions

NOEXECUTE=OPTIN FASTDETECT and set it to: NOEXECUTE=ALWAYSOFF FASTDETECT.

[XP_2600]

But i got the same problem in windows 2003 when i use a romaing profile which saved over the LAN, and i need to click always ok before i can open a shortcut or something its so annoying.