Well, Ive been testing Windows 7 for a few weeks and have built myself a new workstation in preparation for a MCSE lab and Offsec lab environment. The new machine now has 16GB of Ram, 2.8GHz AMD II X2 processor with 1 320GB SATA and 2 additional 500GB SATA drives. I have most of the system migration done from my last machine and have managed to recover all of my work so far but here and there are a few minor issues.
For startes, I have had Photoshop working in 7 on 2 other machines. Then when I finally moved it to this machine for its final home, it raised an ugly bug not being able to start. How I got around this issue was to set Photoshop to run as administrator. Not really a big deal, since I am the admin to begin with, but if there comes some sort of 0-day for Photoshop that would have been thwarted by not running as admin, well, I just set myself up for fail.
As you can see above, this is a generic error. I for the life of me couldnt find what executable it was reffering to as being blocked and this was the first time since using 7 that I have encountered this issue using Photoshop. To fix this sort I went to the programs folder, right click Photosop and brought up the properties. Then on the compatibility tab, there is an option you can check to enable “run this program as administrator”. Once I did that, the error went away, but I still cant see why it does it now, after testing on multiple machines using the same OS.
Some programs seem to work fine with this desktop, while on anothers the same program and same OS and updates had issues. For example, Notepad++ wouldnt run on my wifes computer without some messing with the compatibility settings. On my new machine, it worked fine without having to set anything at all, which is odd, because we are using the same identical files for the program.
Im not really too surprised to see the randomness in which 7 works with files and programs in general because 7 is still fairly new, but it is odd to see the same program on the same version of 7 on several machines all do something different and unique, yet they all have the same updates, settings and permissions as well as the same exe’s on all of them. This randomness is something that makes troubleshooting even harder for techs and I think will become a headache for helpdesk people in the long run.