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Disabling DEP

May 14th, 2009 Author: Thai Categories: Tips

What is DEP? DEP is Data Execution Prevention. It can be hardware or software based. What it does is keeps programs from accessing parts of memory that it does not have access to. This is very important nowadays in browsers where the majority of malicious attacks comes from.

The Fast way….

1. run command prompt as adminstrator
2. type in ‘bcdedit /set nx AlwaysOff’
3. to renable, do ‘bcdedit /set nx OptIn’

The Easy way….

1. right click on ‘my computer’ and go to ’settings’
2. go to the ‘advanced Tab’
3. from here go to the ’settings button’
4. click on the 3rd tab
5. from here you can turn it on for all program, or ones that you select.

Conclusion….

It is a good idea to keep it running. There are some cases where a program has already interfered with your system and the need arises for disabling it.

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