IKernel installer might have problem with DEP

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pmikep

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The long version: I have ArcSoft's TotalMedia 3.5 installed on my Win7 machine. The software came with my Diamond USB TV stick and I use it to record old movies from TV. It has worked fine for many years.

Then I upgraded Win7 using an NTLite install. (Upgrading is different from reinstalling. Upgrade preserves your old settings.)

After the upgrade, TotalMedia stopped working. In fact, I couldn't even remove or repair it with the OEM Diamond DVD.

At first I thought this was due to a component I had removed using NTLite. But now I'm pretty sure that the problem is that TotalMedia is not compatible with DEP AlwaysOn.

In my old Win7, I had DEP set for OptOut. But in this NTLite build, I set it for AlwaysOn. (See the old NTLite archive for how to do that in NTLite.)

I kinda confirmed this by restoring my old Win7. On it, I was able to use the Diamond DVD to remove TotalMedia.

So now I'm doing another update of Win7, this time with TotalMedia removed from the base install.

Anyway, iKernel is an old, old installer, probably from Windows 3.x days. So thought I should document this problem here if anyone increases their DEP setting in Windows using NTLite.
 
P.S. In fact, after booting with DEP AlwaysOn, TM Monitor fails. Even so, when I start TotalMedia, the TV monitor stays black. When I call up the EPG, the program crashes.

If you go to Diamond's website, they now have HiDTV as their software for their TV stick. But, in addition to the fact that there's no documentation for it, the .ts files it creates don't import into PowerDirector 15. So now I have to use WMC to record TV off the computer.
 
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I suppose it should've been obvious - but any product with the name "kernel" in it must be bad from a security standpoint. No wonder DEP locks it down.
 
OK, thanks for the info, let us know if you find an issue with NTLite or any of its settings.
AlwaysOn is known to cause issues in general, that's why it's not on by default.
 
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