Well vista is being a bit of a pain. When hardware DEP was switched on in XP service pack 2, I immediately went and turned on the ‘opt out’ policy – i.e. I would selectively switch on the applications that needed to have hardware DEP disabled. Most of my applications worked well, and the few exceptions were easy to take care of.
For some bizarre reason I don’t get the option of disabling hardware dep on applications that crash under vista; or at least it may be selective.
dvdidle pro is one of those applications which started crashing under Vista. The problem was that it only said ‘this program has stopped working’, no explanations given. When I went and manually disabled DEP for it it all started running just fine again. I prefer to have a longer lasting battery, thank you very much.
If it wasn't for carbon-14, I wouldn't date at all