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What is the consensus? Avoid SP1?

 
 
Trevor
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      21st Mar 2008

I guess I'm hearing that SP1 should not be installed right now.

Is that what everyone is more or less saying?

My experience so far is bad.

Zone Alarm quit working and my NIC card quit working.
My Dell is only 5 months old....drivers should NOT be an issue
especially since I'm using a brand name Intel Nic .

Why would MS put SP1 up on their webpage if they knew it still has
major issues?

I don't get it....for now...I'm trying to figure out how to uninstall
it.

Grrrr..



Respectfully,

Trev
 
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PaulB
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      21st Mar 2008
I doubt you will get a consensus. I installed SP1 on two different computers
with no problem once I updated the drivers that were considered a problem. I
do find it a little faster. The changes to search (prompted by a potential
law suit) I don't like but there seem to be enough work-arounds on the WEB.
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"Trevor" wrote:

>
> I guess I'm hearing that SP1 should not be installed right now.
>
> Is that what everyone is more or less saying?
>
> My experience so far is bad.
>
> Zone Alarm quit working and my NIC card quit working.
> My Dell is only 5 months old....drivers should NOT be an issue
> especially since I'm using a brand name Intel Nic .
>
> Why would MS put SP1 up on their webpage if they knew it still has
> major issues?
>
> I don't get it....for now...I'm trying to figure out how to uninstall
> it.
>
> Grrrr..
>
>
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Trev
>

 
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John Barnett MVP
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      21st Mar 2008
I have installed on my machine (machine is 3 months old) and it installed
fine. Previous to that I installed it on my old machine (4 years old)
running Vista Ultimate and it installed fine on that too. Perhaps I am one
of the lucky ones, but even when beta testing SP1 my experience of problems
was virtually nil.

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"Trevor" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> I guess I'm hearing that SP1 should not be installed right now.
>
> Is that what everyone is more or less saying?
>
> My experience so far is bad.
>
> Zone Alarm quit working and my NIC card quit working.
> My Dell is only 5 months old....drivers should NOT be an issue
> especially since I'm using a brand name Intel Nic .
>
> Why would MS put SP1 up on their webpage if they knew it still has
> major issues?
>
> I don't get it....for now...I'm trying to figure out how to uninstall
> it.
>
> Grrrr..
>
>
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Trev


 
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Don
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      21st Mar 2008


"Trevor" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> I guess I'm hearing that SP1 should not be installed right now.
>
> Is that what everyone is more or less saying?
>
> My experience so far is bad.
>
> Zone Alarm quit working and my NIC card quit working.
> My Dell is only 5 months old....drivers should NOT be an issue
> especially since I'm using a brand name Intel Nic .
>
> Why would MS put SP1 up on their webpage if they knew it still has
> major issues?
>
> I don't get it....for now...I'm trying to figure out how to uninstall
> it.
>
> Grrrr..
>
>
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Trev


I installed it yesterday morning, for my Vista Ultimate 64 bit, so far seems
to be working well for me.



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poppop3x
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      21st Mar 2008
I Installed it the first day. startup and shutdown are quicker. Web sites
show up quicker and no problems yet. cross my fingers lol

"Don" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
>
> "Trevor" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>> I guess I'm hearing that SP1 should not be installed right now.
>>
>> Is that what everyone is more or less saying?
>>
>> My experience so far is bad.
>>
>> Zone Alarm quit working and my NIC card quit working.
>> My Dell is only 5 months old....drivers should NOT be an issue
>> especially since I'm using a brand name Intel Nic .
>>
>> Why would MS put SP1 up on their webpage if they knew it still has
>> major issues?
>>
>> I don't get it....for now...I'm trying to figure out how to uninstall
>> it.
>>
>> Grrrr..
>>
>>
>>
>> Respectfully,
>>
>> Trev

>
> I installed it yesterday morning, for my Vista Ultimate 64 bit, so far
> seems to be working well for me.
>
>
>
> --
> Don
>
>

 
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Robert
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      21st Mar 2008
I installed on two seperate machines at the same time - office and home
office. Never do that again. Neither one will reboot, neither one can be
repaired with the VISTA ultimate disk, neither one will work with system
restore, which ran for 24 hours before the black screen with crazy
characters. Just did a complete reinstall of the OS and ALL programs, files
and settings 2 weeks ago. I get to do it all over again. Don't install
without a major backup. Also, the free SP1 link for Microsoft help hasn't
worked and I've tried it on 4 computers - unknown application error.

"Trevor" wrote:

>
> I guess I'm hearing that SP1 should not be installed right now.
>
> Is that what everyone is more or less saying?
>
> My experience so far is bad.
>
> Zone Alarm quit working and my NIC card quit working.
> My Dell is only 5 months old....drivers should NOT be an issue
> especially since I'm using a brand name Intel Nic .
>
> Why would MS put SP1 up on their webpage if they knew it still has
> major issues?
>
> I don't get it....for now...I'm trying to figure out how to uninstall
> it.
>
> Grrrr..
>
>
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Trev
>

 
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PaulB
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      21st Mar 2008
Could be but all my explorer windows open faster.
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"David" wrote:

> PaulB wrote:
> > I
> > do find it a little faster. The changes to search (prompted by a potential
> > law suit) I don't like but there seem to be enough work-arounds on the WEB.
> >

> are u sure that's not the placebo effect? I can't find a single
> function that is quicker. Can u provide me a couple of specific
> functions that seem quicker?
>

 
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Robert
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      21st Mar 2008
I installed SP1 on 2 different machines this week. Neither runs now. Black
screen with useless codes - different on each. One at the home office, one
at the office. No power outages. Can't repair with VISTA Ultimate disk.
Can't roll back with system restore after it ran for 24 hours straight! And
I just installed new disks, reinstalled clean OS, apps, files and settings.
I get to do it all over again. And the free SP1 link returns the error,
"application error, try again in a few minutes." I've been trying on 4
different computers for days.

"Trevor" wrote:

>
> I guess I'm hearing that SP1 should not be installed right now.
>
> Is that what everyone is more or less saying?
>
> My experience so far is bad.
>
> Zone Alarm quit working and my NIC card quit working.
> My Dell is only 5 months old....drivers should NOT be an issue
> especially since I'm using a brand name Intel Nic .
>
> Why would MS put SP1 up on their webpage if they knew it still has
> major issues?
>
> I don't get it....for now...I'm trying to figure out how to uninstall
> it.
>
> Grrrr..
>
>
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Trev
>

 
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Bri
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      21st Mar 2008
Hi, I installed on two windows machines yesterday and they are both unstable
now, I have had to reinstall on one pc and it looks like on two, driver
issues on both machines, all restore points deleted, microsoft have really
nackerd windows with this SP1.
Another disillusiond windows USER!
"Robert" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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I installed SP1 on 2 different machines this week. Neither runs now. Black
screen with useless codes - different on each. One at the home office, one
at the office. No power outages. Can't repair with VISTA Ultimate disk.
Can't roll back with system restore after it ran for 24 hours straight! And
I just installed new disks, reinstalled clean OS, apps, files and settings.
I get to do it all over again. And the free SP1 link returns the error,
"application error, try again in a few minutes." I've been trying on 4
different computers for days.

"Trevor" wrote:

>
> I guess I'm hearing that SP1 should not be installed right now.
>
> Is that what everyone is more or less saying?
>
> My experience so far is bad.
>
> Zone Alarm quit working and my NIC card quit working.
> My Dell is only 5 months old....drivers should NOT be an issue
> especially since I'm using a brand name Intel Nic .
>
> Why would MS put SP1 up on their webpage if they knew it still has
> major issues?
>
> I don't get it....for now...I'm trying to figure out how to uninstall
> it.
>
> Grrrr..
>
>
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Trev
>


 
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GeraldF
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      22nd Mar 2008
In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed) says...
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> I guess I'm hearing that SP1 should not be installed right now.
>
> Is that what everyone is more or less saying?
>

Gopher it!
No problems here, no benefit either.
In the future you will have to be there.

 
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