
It can cause issues with some older third-party softwareData Execution Prevention (DEP) is one of those ‘blursed’ things. It’s a blessing most of the time when it does its job and doesn’t interfere, but cursed when it does interfere. Let’s look at DEP and how to configure it, or turn DEP off, depending on your needs.What Is DEP & What Does It Do?According to Microsoft, DEP is :“…a set of hardware and software technologies that perform additional checks on memory to help prevent malicious code from running on a system.” Dell simplifies it a bit and tells us that DEP“…can help protect your computer by monitoring your programs...