[Jito463]

This is an old list, but for what it's worth Alcohol 120%/52% will not run if DEP is set to OptOut or AlwaysOn. If set to OptIn or AlwaysOff, then it works just fine (or if added to the exclusions list). That should be fixed in a future update.

[Estel]

Terrible problem with this now.
Recently, over the past week or so, any programs that use the Windows installer have just stopped installing because of DEP. I don't have a clue why. I've tried changing every single setting about DEP that I can find, added programs to the list for which DEP is off etc.
It wasn't like this a week or so ago.

Has anyone got any advice?

I'd like to be able to update MSN, and reinstall Java sometime soon.

[tntoak]

I'm using AdAware 6 & Prime95 (although they have released a 64-bit version at this point), and seen no problems at all with DEP enabled.

Terrible problem with this now.
Recently, over the past week or so, any programs that use the Windows installer have just stopped installing because of DEP. I don't have a clue why. I've tried changing every single setting about DEP that I can find, added programs to the list for which DEP is off etc.
It wasn't like this a week or so ago.

Has anyone got any advice?

I'd like to be able to update MSN, and reinstall Java sometime soon.

That was the problem I had when installing Office XP. Tried reinstalling Windows Installer, everything with no luck. I wound up reinstalling x64 to get the installer working right (fortunately, if you reinstall over an existing x64 setup, it doesn't require you to reformat and install from scratch).

[Estel]

Tried reinstalling Windows Installer, everything with no luck.

How am I supposed to do that? :s Sorry, that's not something I've had to do before (can't see it as a Windows component)

[Jito463]

Did you install the update for x64? It's an update for the Microsft Installer, but afterwards I couldn't install Java. I had to uninstall the update from Add/Remove Programs and then it installed fine.

[Estel]

Ya, just solved it (thanks to help elsewhere) by doing that same method.
Though I reinstalled the update, I installed what I needed in between then and reinstalling.

[fatboyjim]

I had some major problems after enabling DEP (it didn't help that I'd forgotten I'd enabled it! -took ages to work out what was wrong)

Winamp 5 -- Jump to file feature doesn't seem to work properly when DEP is on - indeed it completely removes itself from Winamp (the extended version which is now installed by default with winamp... contains options like Enqueue)

BitTornado (www.bittornado.com) -- crashed with Unknown Software Exception error whenever I ran it with DEP turned on. Now works fine

Cheers
Jim

This post has been edited by fatboyjim: Jun 14 2005, 11:21 AM

[chasnichol]

Strange to say but after reading this discusion I turned the dxp on and dreamweaver 2004 mx is still working without any problems
also by clicking on my photoshop exe on my c drive xp32 that starts also without having to reinstall it in xp64. fireworks asks for the serial number after that its ok.

[SCSIraidGURU]

If I go to start - help and support it won't open because of DEP and if I click "what is it?" on the DEP warning thing, that won't even execute. And Also, I don't know if it is DEP but search won't execute..
How can I turn DEP off?
**edit nevermind... I found out how to get it to work in system..... my bad!! (google is your friend)!**

I disabled it in system setup and boot.ini by adding /noexecute=AlwaysOff /pae.

/pae turns back on NUMA for those with NUMA memory management supported. DEP is MS lame attempt at protecting our computers. I wish MS would spend more time shrinking the size of the OS and fixing the problems. Most of the security s*** they added, I disabled. It only managed to cause more app problems. Bill Gates has to learn, MS does not know how to protect my workstation.

[TranceEnergy]

DEP can be turned off by editing the Boot ini file, or you could turn it
off all together by Nlite and live without it.

So i would like to turn the table, are there any app or otherwise that DEPEND on having DEP enabled?

We have firewalls, anti virus, spy ware killers/prevents, anti trojan, IP protection, wlan protection and what not, to prevent dirty code from intruding or destroing, our systems.

I vaguely remember i did turn it off and noticed some actual noticeable
performance boost. So... If the enviroment is secured and all, kill it?

[Texkonc]

I use Mdeamon email server and it likes to twig out sometimes.

[SCSIraidGURU]

I use Mdeamon email server and it likes to twig out sometimes.

Boot.ini add /NoExecute=AlwaysOff

I do it immediately after installing any OS.

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