In Windows, how can I determine whether Hardware Data Execution Protection (DEP) is enabled on my machine?

John Savill

October 15, 2007

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A. You can use the WMIC command to query WMI, as follows. The output should be TRUE.

wmic OS Get DataExecutionPrevention_Available
DataExecutionPrevention_Available
TRUE

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