DEP

DEP - Data Execution Prevention service. Initial aim is to protect the system from inbound and outbound threats related to malicious code. Turned out very annoying and overprotective MS service. It prevents user from executing the majority of third party programs, including games. Applications can be added to "exclusions list" of DEP service, but if you have many of those it's easier to kill that "playing smart" git, than trying to find a compromise.

Therefore you may need to disable DEP service:

WARNING!!! You must use account with administrator privileges in both cases to succeed. Under Windows Vista and 7 you may need to enable real Administrator account or run CMD "As Administrator"

Under Windows Vista/7:

1. Go to Start > Run, type in "cmd" without quotes.

2. In the command prompt window type "bcdedit.exe /set {current} nx AlwaysOff" without quotes. Press Enter.

3. You'll see the prompt "Operation Completed Successfully".

4. Reboot your PC.

Under Windows XP:

1. Go to Control panel > System > Advanced settings tab > Startup and Recovery.

2. Click Settings button, click Edit button.

3. In the Notepad windows search for "/NoExecute" parameter without quotes and change it to "/NoExecute=AlwaysOff" w/o quotes.

4. Save file and reboot your PC.

--EscondeR 16:27, 30 July 2008 (UTC)