| English | German |
| dead code | toter Code (Code that is not called during profiling) |
| dead gateway detection | Dead Gateway Detection (The practice of the TCP/IP protocol in Windows 2000 and the Windows Server 2003 family to change the default gateway to the next default gateway in the list of configured default gateways when a specific number of connections retransmit segments) |
| dead key | Tottaste (A key that is used to modify the character that follows it, for example, by adding an accent mark or other diacritic) |
| dead-letter queue | Warteschlange für unzustellbare Nachrichten (For Message Queuing, a queue that stores nontransactional messages that are undeliverable or expired. These queues store failed messages on the computer on which the message expired. Messages in these queues are written to disk and are therefore recoverable) |
| transactional dead-letter queue | Warteschlange für unzustellbare Transaktionsnachrichten (For Message Queuing, a queue that stores transactional messages that cannot reach their destination queue. Transactional dead-letter queues store failed messages on the computer on which the message expired. Messages in these queues are written to disk and are therefore recoverable) |
