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Asked: 2026-05-12T06:00:03+00:00

I’ve been trying to disable DEP on my windows 2008 dev box and have

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I’ve been trying to disable DEP on my windows 2008 dev box and have not succeeded.

I’ve tried:
System Properties->Performance Options->Data Execution Prevention->Turn on DEP for essential Windows programs and services only

(still happens)

System Properties->Performance Options->Data Execution Prevention->Turn on DEP for all programs and services except those I select

in this case, i tried to choose both inetinfo.exe and w3wp.exe in the c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\ folder, and when selected, I receive this error:

“You can not set DEP attributes on 64-bit executables”.

I’m sure that there is some memory leak somewhere – but that is a separate problem. I’m happy to live with it for a while in my development environment (in fact that is where I need to let it go so I can see it)

Any help would be appreciated!

Thx,
Doug

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  1. Editorial Team

    The GUI does not show the 4 modes of DEP operation.

    You need to do it at boot time:Boot Parameters to Configure DEP and PAE

    However, more info on the error message:

    System DEP configuration settings
    apply only for 32-bit applications and
    processes when running on 32-bit or
    64-bit versions of Windows. On 64-bit
    versions of Windows, if
    hardware-enforced DEP is available it
    is always applied to 64-bit processes
    and kernel memory spaces and there are
    no system configuration settings to
    disable it.

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