I was desperate to get on with things so I installed LoadRunner 9.5 ->9.51 and finally 9.52.
I rebooted and ....
Well that's when it all went south. When I tried to record IE8 (yes here it comes) in VUGEN - I kept getting DEP problems & either no records or crashing.
I tried disabling DEP for Run DLL as APP - but to no avail.
FInally after much Googling (where would we be without you Google!) - I discovered Martin Spier's had written up this exact problem. (http://martinspier.co.uk/loadrunner-ie8)
You need to hack the c:\boot.ini to explicitly make /noexecute=alwaysoff
Many thanks to Google and Martin Spier's for this timely fix!
