IE and other programs crashing

[Energy Vampire]

As of this morning IE crashes instantly everytime I open it and will keep trying to reopen itself (and crash) until i task manager end process.

Yahoo messenger does the same thing. I can obviously just uninstall/reinstall but thought maybe it was something simple.

Google searching "IE crashing" is like google searching "That video of that guy" on youtube.

[Energy Vampire]

add DAP to the list of programs crashing...

this makes no sense to me

Something about Data Execution Protection or something, but i ran a fix to "disable" that and the programs still crash it just doesn't tell me that's the reason anymore, i guess i disabled the error message but not the error...