To DEP or not to DEP …

re: To DEP or not to DEP …

ramona — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:54:57 GMT

Thanks! I was looking for that reg key!

re: To DEP or not to DEP …

ramona — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:22:10 GMT

I thought it would work.

I need to add an exception on a few hundred machines so doing it via the registry seems the easiest way.

When I run the installed program I don't get a "DEP has closed ..." window but an error message about registering xwpdlx20.ocx. If I add the program to the DEP list via the GUI I have no problems but I can't do that on hundreds of machines.

re: To DEP or not to DEP …

rsw8n — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:09:25 GMT

What performance impact does DEP have on a Windows 2003, SQL Server 2000 environment?

re: To DEP or not to DEP …

timothyn — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:06:58 GMT

Hi Rsw8n,

DEP should have no noticeable performance penalty. With hardware NX or XD support, all the OS really has to do is keep an eye on which apps it should monitor or not. I have never seen any sort of formal testing done on DEP performance, but it has been enabled by default ever since SP2 for XP and I have never seen nor heard of any performance penalty at all.

Tim