Anyone having problems with Win 7 SP1? Wanted to get some feedback
before installing SP1, or not. Thx.

On 20 Jul 2011, sillyputty <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt:

> Anyone having problems with Win 7 SP1? Wanted to get some feedback
> before installing SP1, or not. Thx.

I'm sure *someone* out there is, but I'm not, and I haven't heard of
any widespread problems.

On 7/20/2011 2:44 PM, sillyputty wrote:
> Anyone having problems with Win 7 SP1? Wanted to get some feedback
> before installing SP1, or not. Thx.

Went fine here on 2 machines, on 7 Pro 32, the other 7 Ultimate 32.

By "Fine", all I can say is that I've not found anything "obviously
broken" yet. As with any WinUpdate, there probably is something borken
in it that they'll fix shortly (we hope).

Others have had problems, just plug "windows 7 sp1 problems" into a
search engine to see what's around.

IOW, there's *always* a problem(s) with *any* OS or application. All you
can hope is that *your* combination of software and hardware won't
trigger it/them. (and the worst part is finding them)

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On 7/20/2011 5:44 PM, sillyputty wrote:
> Anyone having problems with Win 7 SP1? Wanted to get some feedback
> before installing SP1, or not. Thx.

My upgrade went smoothly.

On 7/20/2011 4:44 PM, sillyputty wrote:
> Anyone having problems with Win 7 SP1? Wanted to get some feedback
> before installing SP1, or not. Thx.

Like most people I have had no problems during or since upgrading to SP1.

About the only people who seemed to have problems were people who tried
upgrading pre-release, beta versions, or those who tried to fake the
license activation using one of the many registry hacks.

One of the big problems was pre-release SP1 needed to be removed before
the final SP1 was installed. There may be some fighting between the
upgrade itself and some anti-virus programs that may trigger a false
positive since many of the operating files are being changed. Many
suggest disabling anti-virus prior to starting the actual upgrade due to
the above problem and that they will usually slow down the upgrade with
all the anti-virus file checks.

Here are a few links with how-to and such info.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2505743

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...ice-pack-1-sp1

sillyputty wrote:
> Anyone having problems with Win 7 SP1? Wanted to get some feedback
> before installing SP1, or not. Thx.

My SP1 upgrade went smoothly, because I had a backup :-) Yours will too.

If I didn't back up C:, I'm sure something strange would have happened.

You can uninstall SP1, as long as you don't use the special
Disk Cleanup option afterwards, to remove the files
associated with the install process. You can perhaps
save 1GB by erasing those files, and then discover later
that you need to uninstall SP1 again. Then you'd be screwed.

There are precious few repair options, once you've installed
SP1. At least, according to this. So take a look at this
first. This is not an argument to avoid installing SP1,
because sooner or later, you're going to have to install
it. This is just a warning about how the addition of a
service pack, changes things.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...r-install.html

"If you have Windows 7 SP1 installed, then you either must
use a "retail" Windows 7 SP1 installation disc to be able
to do a repair install, or uninstall SP1 to be able to use
a retail Windows 7 installation disc to do a repair install
with."

"You cannot use a slipstream Windows 7 installation disc to
do a repair install with on a currently installed Windows 7 SP1."

All I have is the recovery partition on my laptop, which doesn't
qualify as anything like that. It doesn't look like I have
many prospects, for doing Repair Installs.

Paul

GlowingBlueMist <GlowingBlueMist truely.invalid> wrote:

> About the only people who seemed to have problems were people
> who tried upgrading pre-release, beta versions, or those who
> tried to fake the license activation using one of the many
> registry hacks.

How do you know that? I have been using a workaround for Windows
XP product activation, for years, to avoid possible headaches.
I doubt that Windows product activation is compatible with making
backup copies of Windows, and I could not live without them.
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>
> One of the big problems was pre-release SP1 needed to be removed before
> the final SP1 was installed. There may be some fighting between the
> upgrade itself and some anti-virus programs that may trigger a false
> positive since many of the operating files are being changed. Many
> suggest disabling anti-virus prior to starting the actual upgrade due to
> the above problem and that they will usually slow down the upgrade with
> all the anti-virus file checks.
>
> Here are a few links with how-to and such info.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2505743
>
> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...ice-pack-1-sp1
>
>
>
>

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Paul <nospam needed.com> wrote:

> sillyputty wrote:

>> Anyone having problems with Win 7 SP1? Wanted to get some
>> feedback before installing SP1, or not. Thx.
>
> My SP1 upgrade went smoothly, because I had a backup :-) Yours
> will too.
>
> If I didn't back up C:, I'm sure something strange would have
> happened.

Having backup copies of the Windows drive C partition is an
enormous confidence builder. It was a long long time ago when I
started, but I recall the change in usability. At first, when
something went wrong I would panic like before. As time went on,
using Windows became much easier. It's a whole new world.
Being without an easy to restore backup of Windows is sort of like
having to compose a document without making mistakes.

Good luck and have fun.
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>
> Paul
>

On 7/21/2011 5:44 AM, sillyputty wrote:
> Anyone having problems with Win 7 SP1? Wanted to get some feedback
> before installing SP1, or not. Thx.

What kind(s) of problems are you expecting?

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On 7/20/2011 10:29 PM, John Doe wrote:

> Having backup copies of the Windows drive C partition is an
> enormous confidence builder.

I just make a copy of my World Of Warcraft folder Everything else
is on disk or stored remotely.