boot.ini switch

Hi all
I’m using dual boot XP (Finnish/English)
What is the switch “NoExecute=OptIn” for
and why it is absent in the second line
the switch is not mentioned here
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1268/
hence my question. Thanks in advance


[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Pro Finn" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Pro ENG" /fastdetect

 

Some information here http://tinyurl.com/4o6bb It relates to Data Execution Prevention introduced in SP2.

 

Hi hadi,

The info in the Winguides link you posted is dated March 2003, which is well before the release of XP SP2. If you have updated your English version of XP Pro to SP2, then you can manually add the /NoExecute=OptIn
switch to your boot.ini file, but it is not required. From bch's link:

"If the /noexecute=policy_level setting is not present in the boot entry for a version of Windows which supports DEP, the behavior is the same as if the /noexecute=OptIn option was included."

Nick