I am going to cut and paste words you used and then respond to them:
"DEP is great, its a major step forward for windows, but its main problem is its a huge system hog, requiring hardware enabled cpu's, other than that its software which is the main problem, mainly due to the shell extensions that are added over the course of installing stuff, winzip for example, causes a crash bug in explorer.exe.
the types of attack that DEP prevents are not widestream if at all. they require INSANE ammounts of knowlege on program dll injection and program thread hooking, phew, DEP is just not worth it atm due to the HUGE downside and major bugs it has atm."
I say: Don't you think when Microsoft made the Service Pack Two, they udnerstood that every program made after SP2 was installed has to be able to support it's features? Yes. I do not have a problem with Winzip making any programs crash at all and I do not see where DEP actually causes me any problems andit works as it should not matter how good or not so good you think it is. There is always going to be someone out there that gets their kicks in hacking anything and everything and a company will just keep making more measures to perfect what they have already created. The best Anti-Virus suite with a firewall I have ever used that DOES NOT CAUSE ANY PROBLEMS WITH SP2 or my computer is the new INternet Security 2005 by Norton. I downloaded and tested all the trials of the other programs and they all had bugs that reacted with my computer and SP2. The companies have to support SP2 or they will not be made to be prepared since Microsoft holds all the cards anyways. Most of what you says is busg is not always and usually never the service packs or the oeprating system but the companies making the software to run on and through the operating system and service packs. That is why nothing can ever be 100 percent perfect with as big of an operating system as Windows is. There is always going to be companies that do not get it all right with the software they are supposed to support. That is why we as consumers report it and it gets worked on like Divx worked on a problem and a conflict. That is always the way it is going to be. You say it is a resource hog and yet my computer runs just as fast as it did before I installed SP2 and my broadband connection is just as fast to on downloading and uploading and web searches and refreshes. Uninstalling codecs that Windows has installed is not up front as people would like it to be. Other than the Divx codecs, ALL of the rest were installed by SP2 with Windows Media PLayer 9 and then 10. None of them are downloaded from other sources whatsoever. If you go to Add/Remove programs in the Control Panel, there is no simple uninstall for just the codecs other than the Divx program itself. Also I get the green screen only after the videos are running. I had a movie I watched that it did not do it through the whole movie from movielink.com. It is not always at the same time but it is usually happening with most streaming or movies I download on all media players I play them on. I have my ways but what is the fastest and easiest ways to actually uninstall JUST the codecs without actually uninstalling the media players themselves, which with Windows Media PLayer it only rolls back to version nine with the same problems with the green screen washout? By the way the Divx player also shows the green screen to
