what is DEP in SP2? Is there a link that I can learn more about this? Also, it seems that many are disabling this feature.

CougarTrace

That stands for Date Execution Prevention, you must enable it unless you use AMD CPU for now.

I would like to use the Intel CPU even if there is an emegency.

If you use Intel until end of this year, you will not use it, because it is not supporting DEP for now until end of this year.

huh? No offense, but that was a little scattered for me to understand.

A bit hard to understand what you were trying to say, can you rephrase it a bit? Thanks!

If you don't have a 64-bit CPU, Software DEP will take effect. DEP cannot be disabled completely but you can add applications to the exceptions list.

The link in the DEP window will explain its features.

DEP = Data Execution Prevention

Microsoft Website explaining DEP (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;875352)

Article #875352

huh? No offense, but that was a little scattered for me to understand.

If you use DEP for now, you must use AMD CPU, because the company of AMD said they would support Windows XP SP2 DEP.

but Intel CPU is not supporting DEP until end of this year.

so, End of this year is a good time to upgrade your computer if you want to use Intel. (Of course, this includes the faithful user of Intel)