I signed in and a download of a large *dvd.img file stared. Of course
nothing I have can use that file extension and renaming it to ISO does
does not work for me either. Guess I will wait for the update to be
done automatically in March.
I found a program called DVDSanta and after changing the file
extension from IMG to ISO it created the DVD.
I already used the DVD to update one machine and it worked flawlessly.
It certainly beats downloading this service pack every time or letting
the Windows Update handle it over days.
I already had the beta RC SP1 installed and it is on a machine I use
just for testing. The uninstall and the install worked great.
I think I will wait for the automated update for this 64bit machine
which I just finished rebuilding from a hardware crash. Ditto for my
clients, if the update causes them a problem I don't want the blame.
:-|
Only one- Don't.
-until it comes in your update. Even then, I'd wait a couple days, at
least.
There's nothing like a few thousand guinea pigs (lemmings?) to pave the way.
I guess I am one of the guinea pigs. I installed SP1 on my spare
Vista 32 bit machine and it worked fine. I did uninstall the RC
version that I had on the machine.
I was not going to install it on my Vista Home Premium 64bit machine
but I checked that I had all the pre-requiste updates, inserted the
DVD and then after less than an hour, I have SP1 installed. For some
reason it gave me 30 days to activate but it activated online. Usually
updates don't require re-activation.
Now that I have it installed I wonder what all the hoopla was about,
the only difference I can see is that Windows Properties tells me I
have Service Pack 1.
Al
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