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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Tac on November 13, 2005, 10:28:20 AM

Title: Help with Win64xpPro - Boot Ini cannot modify it :(
Post by: Tac on November 13, 2005, 10:28:20 AM

I dont know what the heck MS did but I can no longer just edit the boot.ini file with notepad.


My problem is that I have a program that currently has a known bug that crashes it while running. Until it is fixed the only workaround is to disable the windows DEP.

In short, the boot.ini file now reads:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptOut

I need it to read:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=AlwaysOff

BUT WINDOWS WONT LET ME CHANGE THE BOOT.INI :(

Anyone know how to do this??

Title: Help with Win64xpPro - Boot Ini cannot modify it :(
Post by: Ghosth on November 13, 2005, 10:20:33 PM

I'd start by right clicking the file, properties, then unchecking everything but system.  Its probably the "read only" thats screwing you up.