The driver issue was not bad drivers or a problem with Vista or SP1. It was
that SP1 uninstalls all drivers before the update and then reinstalls them
afterwards. A few third party drivers were not written to permit automatic
reinstallation (a goof by the provider) by TrustedInstaller and SP1 could
not reinstall them. Not a problem for someone who knows how to reinstall a
driver manually if needed, but the vast majority of users would not know a
driver from a putter. So MS did what they could to prevent any users from
having to deal with that while they worked with the device driver providers
on updating the few drivers in question. These were all drivers that worked
just fine except for the reinstall glitch. MS put a scanner in place on WU
to identify problematic drivers on a user's system so that WU would not
offer SP1 in those cases. This apparently has not been completely cleaned
up yet.
Thanks for the explanation Colin. I wish, then, that MS would identify
for me which driver is causing the problem, and I could have contacted
the correct company and tracked down the propert driver, or pushed
them to fix the problem. As it is now, there's no explanation, no
reasons for not offering SP1, not even acknowledging that SP1 is even
out there. I have no idea where the problem could be.
Also, manually downloading, and installing SP1 went fine, without any
mention of a problem driver that could cause a problem. It just could
be a matter of MS not cleaning up their database as you stated, but
after all this time, you would think they'd be on top of that if it
were causing a problem for people. I'm not running any hardware, that
I'm aware of, that's out of the ordinary, all from major manufacturers
that all assured it was "Vista Compatible."
Well, Vista opening a new world of OS. After continually getting a bad
rap from rollout, you think they would have made it easier on folks
more than a year later. Oh well.
Thanks again.
