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DEP Update

Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 2:48 am
by H4nd0
Hi all,

I posted here some time back about detecting whether DEP is active or not:

http://www.installaware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2459

The correct method to work around DEP is to correctly link your app to make it DEP compliant and _NOT_ make updates to the registry to exclude your app from DEP checks.

Typically in Visual Studio you will use the /NXCOMPAT linker switcher.

Here's a few articles discussing the issue:

http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_howard/ar ... -2008.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... S.80).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... S.85).aspx

Cheers,

H4