I posted my views earlier on Nikon software – and I’m now pretty sure that Nikon ViewNX is broken on Windows 7. Below is a link to the native Process Monitor log file – filtered for ViewNX after a complete uninstall and re-install to the latest version of ViewNX 1.5.0 – running on the RTM of Windows 7. ViewNX was still performing an endless loop of I/O and registry requests. I stopped recording after 1.7 million events (a 182MB log file – compressed to 21MB below).

Well I figured since the RC was generally available – I’d test the upgrade process from Windows Vista to Windows 7. I chose my ThinkPad T61p as the victim. This is my fully loaded portable dev environment including BitLocker encrypted volumes - and I was a little sceptical at first. A new OS usually means re-paving the machine, but I thought I’d try the upgrade and see how it went.

UPDATE: Sun Tests Social Networking Toolkit If I could design the future of social networking it would look like this... I'd have a platform... some kind of service or software platform, from within which I could blog, twitter, chat and link to the people I know.

It's my data and I'll open it if I want to... right? Errr.. not quite. If you've EFS encrypted files on Windows Vista you will not be able to open them under Windows XP. I'd thought I had most of my recovery scenarios covered. Was about to prep my XP Pro notebook for a trip and wanted to take some EFS secured data with me as well... The following KB article applies... Error message when you try to open an EFS-encrypted file in Windows XP or in Windows Server 2003 after the file has been opened in Windows Vista: "Access is denied"