The most common place to find this is on our computer’s system tray. There, you can find the program’s “execute disable” button. Clicking it will allow you to disable the program’s execution.
If you don’t want to disable programs, you can also edit your computer’s registry to have it prevent program execution. Another possible place to disable it (for your own home) is in the C:\Windows folder, but be careful. It might be easier to do it in your computer’s antivirus file.
There are several programs that allow you to disable the execution of certain programs on a computer. One of them is called the disable execute bit. You can find this in the Programs/Microsoft/Windows/System folder. It is a simple registry key that allows you to choose whether a certain program can execute or not. The most common place to disable this is in your operating system’s antivirus (AV) utility, but this is not advised.
The easiest way to disable this is to uninstall the program and then reinstall it. If you think you might want to disable it more, you can also look for a registry hack that can disable it for a specified time. This is called the Disable Execute bit hack.
There’s also the standard disable.exe file, but that is also pretty easy to disable. Here’s an example of disabling the execute bit of a program with a registry hack that can be found in AV.
The Execute Disable bit hack is one of those rare programs that I really like to disable, even though I don’t understand all of the technical details. It seems like every time an AV program gets updated, there is some new version that contains a new method to disable it. For example, the new version of the Windows registry hack should allow you to disable the execute bit. It requires a reboot, but is very easy to do.
The good news is that the Windows registry hack can be disabled by using the new Windows registry file. The bad news is that this registry file is not the latest one released. It seems that the latest version of the Windows registry hack is actually the same as the one that is already on Windows 8.1. If you want to disable the execute bit, you have to replace the old registry file with the new one.
The execute bit isn’t the only bit that can be disabled. The Windows registry could be removed from the Windows 8.1 operating system, but as Microsoft is still working on the feature, you can’t disable it all.
I really like the idea of executing the bit. This is something that would be useful if I decided I want to run a game full of monsters and monsters-of-the-week. I could write an app that executed the bits and gave me an option to kill monsters. I could even have it execute to the net and give me an option to search for all monsters. Since there is no way to disable the bit, I would need to write it to disable it in an automated fashion.
We decided we wanted to give you a few examples of things that can execute the bit, but that don’t have an option to disable it. We also wanted to keep the idea of not being able to execute the bit as a way to be a little more mysterious. I hope you find the idea of using the bit to be interesting as well.
