Friday, July 26, 2013

LoadRunner and IE8 INTERNET EXPLORER 8

Had this small problem today and I believe it would be interesting to share the solution. I was “forced” to update to Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) and for my surprise, VuGen crashes when trying to record anything with it.

My first thought was to check for patches. No patches, LoadRunner was already on version 9.52 (9.50 + 9.51 patch + 9.52 patch). Checking some forum posts I’ve found that the issue can be caused by the “Disable Execute Bit” (DEP) functionality. So how to disable it??

You have to open the boot.ini file (C:\boot.ini) and add the following string to your boot line:

/noexecute=alwaysoff

Usually it will become something like that:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT=”Microsoft Windows” /noexecute=alwaysoff /fastdetect

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