Disabling DEP.

[Jack]

On the 28th of Oct, their was a post concerning the disabling of DEP in
regards to faster boot up of XP with SP2.
This was done by editing the boot.ini file from "OptIn" to "AlwaysOff" , it
makes this feature unavailable, but solves the slow boot problem.
Where in the boot.ini file is the DEP file? I opened the file and it wasn't
there.
My question then is, how do I disable DEP?
And don't bother to tell me that it is perfectly normal for a PC to take in
excess of five minutes to start up. When I was running SP1 my machine was
up and running in 20 seconds. Thanks Jack

 

[Tom Porterfield]

On the 28th of Oct, their was a post concerning the disabling of DEP in
regards to faster boot up of XP with SP2.
This was done by editing the boot.ini file from "OptIn" to "AlwaysOff" , it
makes this feature unavailable, but solves the slow boot problem.
Where in the boot.ini file is the DEP file? I opened the file and it wasn't
there.
My question then is, how do I disable DEP?
And don't bother to tell me that it is perfectly normal for a PC to take in
excess of five minutes to start up. When I was running SP1 my machine was
up and running in 20 seconds. Thanks Jack

DEP is represented in boot.ini by the NoExecute switch. Set that to
AlwaysOff to disable DEP. Ex:

/NoExecute=AlwaysOff

Or the complete line in boot.ini:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=AlwaysOff
--
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Windows
http://support.telop.org

Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only.

 

[SlowJet]

I don't see how turning off DEP (Soft or Hard or both) would make more than
a fraction of the time the CPU is involved doing something, and the CPU is a
1000 times faster than memory, and 1,000,000 times faster than a disk drive.
The only thing I have ever seen cause a computer to slow down like that with
out a sign is a bad disk.

SJ

 

[Alex Nichol]

This was done by editing the boot.ini file from "OptIn" to "AlwaysOff" , it
makes this feature unavailable, but solves the slow boot problem.
Where in the boot.ini file is the DEP file? I opened the file and it wasn't
there.
My question then is, how do I disable DEP?

In the line under [Operating System] such as
Multi(0). . . .\Windows "Windows XP" /fastdetect
add /NoExecute=AlwaysOff after a space following the /fastdetect