SharedView and Windows 7

Just as before with the SonicWall VPN Client, I needed to run a piece of software on my beta install of Windows 7. I can’t rant enough about this Windows build. It’s the first beta, and I have converted all of my computers (well, almost all, my media center pc is not working because of a faulty HDMI port on my TV, but I digress) to running it. One of the first tools I install on a clean dev machine is SharedView. It’s an amazing tool that allows collaboration on a project when working remotely. It’s super light weight, but has all of the essentials. I couldn’t work remotely without it. Unfortunately, upon running the install, it tells me I have an incompatible operating system. Says who? Well, I was at a brick wall until today. A fabulous coworker of mine reminded me of a tool to modify an MSI called Orca I used a while back. So I opened up the SharedView MSI and found a ton of hardcoded references to Vista, so I got rid of them. Installs fine, and so far no crashes. Here it is.