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Archive for February, 2007

It’s the end of the month and I thought I would do a quick wrap up on the month’s events. A lot of updates recently and I have been adding a lot of pictures with plenty more to come.

The website has been progressing quite well. The structure of the site is pretty much set although I do know the changes I will be making in the near future. I want to add some additional links for other information I want to share. Expression Web has been pretty decent in most respects. I have moved past the initial shortcomings of no photo albums and themes. I still those are pretty significant and in typical Microsoft fashion instead of fixing the problem or offering an alternative, they just moved on to the next feature of the program. I still think they should have added alternative to the features they ripped out. But on the whole, Expression is pretty good. I’m getting used to the UI and the Dynamic Web Template functionality. Now that I have the hang of it, it does seem an easier way to go. At least in simple terms this is the same functionality a lot of people were trying to achieve with Server Side Includes. But of course, running things on the server, no matter what they, tends to make people nervous. Again, I’m only scratching the surface with Expression Web, but the program is starting to grow on me.

Jalbum has turned out to be quite an enjoyable app. Now that I get the hang of it as well, putting albums together is very easy. They aren’t super fancy with all sorts of Flash trickery, but they are easy to make and post. Lots of new pictures have gone up recently and I still have plenty more to add.

I’ve been taking a lot of new pictures with the Rebel XTI and the more I tinker with the camera the more I like it. The burst mode is very impressive, the extended battery life I added with the batter grip is just amazing and understanding the readouts within the camera itself is getting much easier. I’m really excited about this camera and the new abilities it gives me. It’s a very fast shooter and it producing some excellent results. The 70-200mm sports lens is really turning out to be impressive (now that I have that stupid circular polarizer issue worked out!!) It offers so much range that I see all sorts of possibilities as I’m shooting. Should I go for the wide open shot to show all the details? Or should I pull in tight and fill the frame with one element. It’s very exciting and there seems to be possibilities in almost everything these days. Something that is pretty mundane and common takes on a whole new perspective when you zoom right into it and show off the tiny details.

I’m anxious to give the lens a full day test at my son’s upcoming lacrosse game. The practice shots have been pretty good so I’m hoping with a full action game there will be plenty to capture. My daughter starts her season of lacrosse too, so it should be a full season of action. I’m missed a lot of shots of her last year so hopefully I can make amends this time around.

On a non-photography note, I have learned more about IIS and PHP in the last month than I would have ever thought possible. From installing this blog to installing the discussion forum, it’s been a learning experience. There isn’t a whole lot of documentation about getting PHP apps to run under IIS. Let me rephrase, there is very little good documentation on the process. But I have muddle through and made some pretty good progress.

Installing PHP and MySQl was no big deal. A couple of minor glitches due to my inexperience and everything was up and running. And it’s not that PHP doesn’t work well under IIS, it seems to work fine. The problem is finding what settings need to be used and what permissions need to be set on each folder. Since most of the apps don’t have an installer like Windows where it creates folders and sets permissions you need to do all this manually. It sort of makes it tough when those details are left out and you have to do endless Google searches to find some poor soul who is in the exact same position as you and what he did to resolve it. And usually it’s a pretty simple fix. But it almost seems like there is mentality of “If you have to ask, you shouldn’t install this.” I guess with so many real Apache servers out there, there is not a lot of sympathy for us saps trying to get this to work under IIS.

And speaking of Apache, I am really getting tempted to install it and give it a try. I might try the simple route and install Apache under Windows. This sounds like a contraction in terms to me to, but they make it and I know people who use it. Apparently it works pretty well. Of course if that fails miserably I may just bring up a whole new Linux box, or whatever term they are using these days. Right now what I have is working just fine, but I am really liking the PHP apps out there. There are all sorts of add-ons out there. So as I keep going down this road, it seems I will reach the end of the PHP/IIS compatibility and will need to have real Apache running to make it all work. Could be an interesting ride.

Stay tuned for more changes to the site and more pictures to be added. I’ve sort of got a rhythm going now and there is a lot more to do. The weather is getting pretty nice so there will be even more opportunities for great pictures.

As always, thanks for stopping by!

It was a rookie mistake. I should’ve known better.

I took my Sigma 70-200mm lens out the other weekend for its first real sports photography test. I was going to take pictures of my son playing lacrosse just to see what zoom I was going to get and how the burst mode was going to work for me.

Everything went great. I was able to get plenty of shots in rapid succession. I was able to follow the action and keep the kids in the center of the frame. Sometimes I had to back off because I was just too close…

Back at the computer, things were a different story. Every picture was blurry. Only one or two were even close to being usable. It was a huge disappointment.

At first I thought it was the camera. That thought didn’t appeal to me. But other pictures had turned out alright so it then occurred to me, that the lens might be suspect. I’m not sure which made me feel worse, the camera being at fault or the lens.

I was pretty sure I wasn’t at fault. I’d been able to grab some good shots with another lens no problem. I thought I was in pretty good control behind the lens by now.

I took some test outside of stationary objects – specially, a sign on a tree.
- Blurry.

I readjusted the Shutter Speed.
- Blurry

I tested in Sports Mode; 1/1600 sec.
- Blurry

I put the camera on a tripod.
- Blurry

Camera on the tripod with Self Timer.
- Blurry

Was the camera shaking when the shutter triggered? On a tripod and at 1/1600 sec it seemed unlikely to cause problems.

The thought of sending the lens back really made me ill. I just wanted it to work! I started to think of what Sigma would ask me to do to make sure it was their lens and not something else.

Then it hit me. I had become so used to it being there I didn’t even think about it. The only change to the lens was the circular polarizer I put on. It was like in the movie where they zoom in on the knife set in the kitchen as the masked figure wanders through the house.

I took the filter off and shot a picture on the tripod with the timer and then just on the tripod.

They looked perfect.
It was time to handhold the camera and shoot some pictures. Everything shot fine. The Shutter Speed was still well over 1/1000 sec so there was no shake by me holding it.

I took the camera to the practice this weekend and tried again. The difference is night and day! All the pictures are sharp and clear. Only the occasional shot where I’m panning incorrectly came out slightly blurry. Everything looked great!

I was able to zoom right in and capture them scooping up the ball, making a pass, or crashing into each other. The lens was behaving exactly the way I was hoping.

As a sports lens it’s proving to be excellent. It can zoom right in for the tight shot or back off to grab much more of the field. I’m thinking I should really be able to get some great action once the season starts in another week or two.

So to get back to the filter. When I looked through the lens everything looked fine. Very sharp details. When I took it off the camera and looked through it, everything still looked fine. I can’t see any distortion in the actual filter, but when it’s on the camera the results are disastrous!

I did go fairly cheap with the filter, $40 for a 77mm from Amazon. I don’t know if this is just a bad copy of the filter. I read a lot of reviews and people use this one and say its fine. Don’t expect anything too spectacular, but at least it protects the lens. It’s the Sunpak 77mm circular polarizer. I have the Sunpak UV filter on the camera now and it works just fine. I have no blurring issues with that on. I want something on the front of the lens. I don’t want the bare glass exposed.

Who knows what’s happened. At least it isn’t the camera or the lens. I can deal with getting another filter. The moral of the story? Make sure to test the optics before going out to shoot. And test that filter to make sure it works!

The Sigma 70-200mm EX DG HSM Macro lens is a really good lens. So far I highly recommend it. I should have some really good pictures from it in the next week or so.

I use DxO as part of my regular workflow to edit and process pictures. Its ability to enhance and correct photos is quite amazing sometimes. Over the past couple of years it has gone from a niche product to very much in the mainstream for photo editing.

However, I have recently run into some issues with the anti-piracy software that gets bundled with this program. I believe the Pace Anti-Piracy software is so malicious and shameful that I have to say something.

I paid no attention to such things with 3.5. I simply went about my business. But, the 4.1 version is something I have wanted to try since it’s the only version that supports the new Canon Rebel XTI. I checked over the Internet to see what people had to say about DxO and came across a few unusual articles. What I found was that Pace installs so much garbage and hides files all over the system that it behaves like a nasty virus. It creates directories and files with seemingly random names. It puts files in directories that have nothing to do with the program itself. It makes bogus registry entries all over the place.

I have a very serious problem with this sort of behavior. I have no issue with software vendors taking steps to protect their applications and prevent people from just making a copy and sending it out on the Internet.

What I do have a problem with is a program concealing itself, acting like files it has written to the drive belong to another program, making changes all over the place that it will never uninstall, and making changes to my machine that act way too much like a virus.

To prove what I’m talking about I used a copy of Regview to copy the registry and the file system before DxO 4.1 was installed. After the install, I compared the old and the new and got a list of all the things that had changed. I was floored!

Pace should be ashamed of itself and its protection scheme. I feel their practice of hiding files is so despicable that I can’t bring myself to actually upgrade to the 4.1 version because of the filth it lays down. I went back to the 3.5 version and removed as many of the Pace files as I could find and the program works just fine.

I feel this is a gross breach of trust between developer and user and think DxO needs to ditch Pace and contact a more respectable vendor to protect their software. I can’t believe they knowingly let this sort of behavior occur and install such garbage on user’s machines. To see what I mean, I have provided the list of files and registry changes Pace made to my machine. You decide if you think this is reasonable.

Some entries look pretty messy, but if you follow along it’s not too bad to read. I have included everything that was changed in case you want to remove Pace completely from your system. The main thing to find is the top level reg key and get rid of it, like this example:

“Added”, “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Gravity\yzTNaygC”
“Added”, “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Dog\Y23msAidKVeps”
“Added”, “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Monitor\f08E8amRLq84″

Just delete the key for Gravity, Dog, and Monitor from the registry. And yes, those are keys Pace created. You can see the “Added” to the far left.

I don’t know if this list is complete or what other programs Pace installs with, but here is what I have.

REGISTRY KEYS CREATED BY PACE ANTI-PIRACY
Notice the bogus keys of Dog, Gravity and Monitor that get created.

“Changed”, “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SessionInformation”, “ProgramCount”, “0×00000003 (3)”, “0×00000004 (4)”, “DWORD”
“Added”, “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\{91D57664-4250-F610-B339-E4A2578BED75}”, “”, “”, “”, “”
“Added”, “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\{91D57664-4250-F610-B339-E4A2578BED75}”, “PzMiHd8fyG”,
“Added”, “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Dog”, “”, “”, “”, “”
“Added”, “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DxO”, “”, “”, “”, “”
“Added”, “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DxO\DxO Optics Pro 4″, “”, “”, “”, “”
“Added”, “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Gravity”, “”, “”, “”, “”
“Changed”, “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist\{75048700-EF1F-11D0-9888-006097DEACF9}\Count”, “HRZR_EHACNGU”,
“Added”, “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache”, “C:\Download\DxO Optics Pro v4 Install\DxO Optics Pro v4 Install\Win\DxOSetup.exe”, “DxOSetup”, “”, “String”
“Added”, “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache”, “C:\Program Files\DxO Labs\DxO Optics Pro v4\DxOOpticsPro.exe”, “DxO Optics Pro v4.0″, “”, “String”
“Added”, “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PACE Anti-Piracy”, “”, “”, “”, “”
“Added”, “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\DOPMenu”, “”, “”, “”, “”
“Added”, “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\DOPMenu”, “”, “{E8CF73E1-2D2B-465D-9740-8E85349FD65A}”, “”, “String”
“Added”, “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.caf”, “”, “”, “”, “”
“Added”, “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Applications\DXOOpticsPro.exe\shell\open\command”, “”, “”, “”, “”
“Added”, “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{E8CF73E1-2D2B-465D-9740-8E85349FD65A}”, “”, “”, “”, “”
“Added”, “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\DOPMenu”, “”, “”, “”, “”
“Added”,
“Added”, “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\DOPProject.Document”, “”, “”, “”, “”
“Added”, “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\DOPProject.Document\DefaultIcon”, “”, “”, “”, “”
“Added”, “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\DxOLabs.Profile”, “”, “”, “”, “”
“Added”, “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DxOLabs”, “”, “”, “”, “”
“Added”, “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DxOLabs\DxOOpticsProv4″, “”, “”, “”,
“Changed”, “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG”, “Seed”,
“Added”, “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\DXOOpticsProv4.exe”, “”, “”, “”, “”
“Changed”, “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-21-3278977455-3212934189-930722307-1006\Products\08208435B8EDF5446967AF6E92E3605E\Usage”, “FTR_OOSEMain”, “0×362f0075 (909049973)”, “0×36300076 (909115510)”, “DWORD”

“Added”, “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell Extensions\Approved”, “{E8CF73E1-2D2B-465D-9740-8E85349FD65A}”, “DOPMenu”, “”, “String”
“Added”, “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\DxO Optics Pro 4″, “”, “”, “”, “”
“Added”, “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Monitor”, “”, “”, “”, “”
“Added”, “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PACE Anti-Piracy”, “”, “”, “”, “”
“Added”, “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\TPkd”, “”, “”, “”,
“Added”, “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TPkd”, “”, “”, “”, “”
“Added”, “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TPkd”, “ErrorControl”, “0×00000001 (1)”, “”, “DWORD”
“Added”, “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TPkd”, “Group”, “filter”, “”, “String”
“Added”, “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TPkd”, “Start”, “0×00000000 (0)”, “”, “DWORD”
“Added”, “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TPkd”, “Type”, “0×00000001 (1)”, “”, “DWORD”
“Added”, “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TPkd\Devices”, “”, “”, “”, “”
“Changed”, “HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3278977455-3212934189-930722307-1006\SessionInformation”, “ProgramCount”, “0×00000003 (3)”, “0×00000004 (4)”, “DWORD”
“Added”, “HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3278977455-3212934189-930722307-1006\Software\{91D57664-4250-F610-B339-E4A2578BED75}”, “”, “”, “”, “”
“Added”, “HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3278977455-3212934189-930722307-1006\Software\{91D57664-4250-F610-B339-E4A2578BED75}”, “PzMiHd8fyG”,
“Added”, “HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3278977455-3212934189-930722307-1006\Software\Dog”, “”, “”, “”, “”
“Added”, “HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3278977455-3212934189-930722307-1006\Software\DxO\DxO Optics Pro 4″, “”, “”, “”, “”
“Added”, “HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3278977455-3212934189-930722307-1006\Software\Gravity”, “”, “”, “”, “”
“Changed”, “HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3278977455-3212934189-930722307-1006\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist\{75048700-EF1F-11D0-9888-006097DEACF9}\Count”, “Added”, “HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3278977455-3212934189-930722307-1006\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache”, “C:\Download\DxO Optics Pro v4 Install\DxO Optics Pro v4 Install\Win\DxOSetup.exe”, “DxOSetup”, “”, “String”
“Added”, “HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3278977455-3212934189-930722307-1006\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache”, “C:\Program Files\DxO Labs\DxO Optics Pro v4\DxOOpticsPro.exe”, “DxO Optics Pro v4.0″, “”, “String”
“Added”, “HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3278977455-3212934189-930722307-1006\Software\PACE Anti-Piracy”, “”, “”, “”, “”

FILES INSTALLED BY PACE ANTI-PIRACY
Notice the fake cookies, bogus XLS files and random folder names that get created! And I don’t really see where Pace gets off adding files to the Microsoft folder!! Even junk XLS files are made in the Internet Cache.

“Changed”, “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data”
“Changed”, “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\sk5NRRcHayLr5″
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\sk5NRRcHayLr5\gxKvDkaHnJpN2.dat”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\zwepiDOrA4″
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\zwepiDOrA4\lCHZd7gDQ.fn_”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\PACE Anti-Piracy”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\PACE Anti-Piracy\License Files”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\PACE Anti-Piracy\License Files\Activations”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\PACE Anti-Piracy\License Files\Hidden”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\PACE Anti-Piracy\License Files\Obsolete”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\PACE Anti-Piracy\License Files\Shortcuts”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\PACE Anti-Piracy\TXbpcUko3UvXjh”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\PACE Anti-Piracy\TXbpcUko3UvXjh\tybJbsiyp4GU.txt”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\PACE Anti-Piracy\zzKAhdb20W”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\PACE Anti-Piracy\zzKAhdb20W\I3nmMBeHwrkD.va_”
“Changed”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data”
“Changed”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\IDMComp\UltraEdit\uedit32.INI”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\PACE Anti-Piracy”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\PACE Anti-Piracy\bnj1mnWC”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\PACE Anti-Piracy\bnj1mnWC\JdbhRHIPZv6.dtc”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\PACE Anti-Piracy\C6Z60l8HWH”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\PACE Anti-Piracy\C6Z60l8HWH\JAoeFpgrX.006″
“Changed”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Cookies”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Cookies\UserName@a73ow4ZPhvZ_[1].txt”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Cookies\UserName@ENc5521zL_[1].txt”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Cookies\UserName@www.yohie[1].txt”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Cookies\UserName@www.yuhui[1].txt”
“Changed”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Cookies\index.dat”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Cookies\Qrbos8nVW1″
“Changed”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Desktop”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Desktop\DxO Optics Pro v4.lnk”
“Changed”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Application Data”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Application Data\bpcUko3UvXjhw”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Application Data\bpcUko3UvXjhw\tybJbsiyp4GU.txt”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Application Data\gl5jTAF2F9z8W”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Application Data\PACE Anti-Piracy”
“Changed”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\History\History.IE5\index.dat”
“Changed”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Temp”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Temp\Edit.000″
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Temp\PTM127.tmp”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Temp\Tpkdboot.reg”
“Changed”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files”
“Changed”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\index.dat”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\XI1nnJ210iGNp”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\XI1nnJ210iGNp\0GOiptSk.xls”
“Changed”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\My Documents”
“Changed”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\ntuser.dat.LOG”
“Changed”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Start Menu\Programs”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Start Menu\Programs\DxO Optics Pro v4″
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Start Menu\Programs\DxO Optics Pro v4\DxO Optics Pro v4.lnk”
“Added”, “C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Start Menu\Programs\DxO Optics Pro v4\Uninstall.lnk”
“Changed”, “C:\Program Files\Common Files”
“Changed”, “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared”
“Added”, “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\6ohi2y9lLM8s”
“Added”, “C:\Program Files\Common Files\PACE Anti-Piracy”
“Added”, “C:\Program Files\Common Files\PACE Anti-Piracy\Log Files”
“Added”, “C:\Program Files\Common Files\PACE Anti-Piracy\Log Files\Auth.log”
“Changed”, “C:\Program Files\DxO Labs”
“Added”, “C:\Program Files\DxO Labs\DxO Optics Pro v4″

“Changed”, “C:\WINDOWS\CAVTemp”
“Changed”, “C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch”
“Added”, “C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\DXOOPTICSPRO.EXE-1E72A84B.pf”
“Added”, “C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\DXOSETUP.EXE-20FE06D0.pf”
“Changed”, “C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers”
“Added”, “C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\TPkd.sys”

This information is provided to help you remove Pace Anti-Piracy from your machine

If you want to learn more you can do a search for “Pace Anti Piracy remove tpkd.sys”. You will also see dozens of articles on Pace causing machines problems because of it’s poorly written code and system driver. This really is a loser protection scheme and I wish DxO would stop using them.

A couple of articles for you to read which started me on this quest.

http://q.queso.com/archives/001606

http://www.pfarrell.com/prc/pace.html