Windows Vista Vista SP1 release ... update ... is out now!

[muckshifter]

For those of you who do not wish to wait for "Auto-Update" next month (April) Microsoft have made Vista SP1 available for download at the Microsoft Download Center ...


http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...6d-5ebb-413b-89c9-cb3d06d12674&DisplayLang=en

Be aware that this is the full package and as such is a 434Mb file size.

If you wait for Auto-Update, you will not necessary need all 434Mb


Microsoft strongly recommends using Windows Update to download and install Windows Vista SP1 on single PCs

 

[guest_9323wk]

Mucks,

Are you updating to it??

wiz

 

[muckshifter]

Mucks,

Are you updating to it??

wiz

This is a leading question ...

I'm not sayin I have, or I will ... I'll repeat what MS say ...

Microsoft strongly recommends using Windows Update to download and install Windows Vista SP1 on single PCs.


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[nivrip]

Hey, Mucks,

Will Vista SP1 cover ALL the previous updates?
I'm still having problems downloading, so much so that I have stopped for the time being. MS are trying to sort it out for me but we have made no progress over the last 4 weeks. They keep sending me "fixes" to install but Vista will not allow them as it deems them "potentially dangerous"

 

[Ian]

I had this installing this morning, and I'm typing it on Vista SP1 now All seems ok - no difference that I can tell yet.

edit: I'll get a mention of SP1 on the front page too

 

[muckshifter]

Hey, Mucks,

Will Vista SP1 cover ALL the previous updates?

Yes ... that is one reason it is 434Mb.

On a "normal" update using Windows Update, you may only need 65Mb, or there abouts.

Sorry you is still having problems Niv ... me, I would have reinstalled by now.


Yes, I have updated to SP1 ... and I had to reset the PC because it DID hang at one point, I don't care what MS say NOT to do, I need a working PC.

As Ian has stated, dunno what may, or may not, have changed, I "see" no difference in the operation of Vista.

I assume I now have all the bug fixes that were pending release.

 

[nivrip]

Sorry you is still having problems Niv ... me, I would have reinstalled by now.

Yep, I have a feeling it may come to that. But I thought I'd better hang fire till MS have tried their best to sort it out.I get the feeling that they are looking at this possibility too.

I'm a bit wary as I am a definite non-techy - I would need careful guidance.

 

[itsme]

Ok Guys > I have updated to Vista SP1 can`t notice many changes YET? now a word to the unexpected. From down load 64.7Mb @8MBs. To installing took just over 45Mins Hmm.. I thought not bad... Huh it took another 35 Mins after having to restart as requested DO NOT TURN OFF THE COMPUTER. installing 1of3 Etcont touch Untill it finishes.

 

[guest_9323wk]

Hi.

I was wondering if someone could please give me a rough timescale of how long it will take to install Vista SP1 as I have to go somwhere in the next hour and was wondering if I would be able to install it in that time??

wiz

 

[muckshifter]

Hi.

I was wondering if someone could please give me a rough timescale of how long it will take to install Vista SP1 as I have to go somewhere in the next hour and was wondering if I would be able to install it in that time??

wiz

Mine took nearly 2hours ...

Then I completely ignored the warning NOT to turn off your PC and rebooted.

Why?

'cos the bloody thing hung on me.

Still, Vista IS very stable ... init?

Never do anything in a rush ... there is always tomorrow.

 

[guest_9323wk]

Hi Mucks,

Thanks for the reply.

I will do it tomorrow. Thats not very good that it hung and took 2 hours because they had released it once and then they I have released it again you would had thought that MS had got it right by now


Thanks again,

wizkid

 

[floppybootstomp]

I think I'll wait a few weeks and let it happen au naturel

I don't have that many problems with Vista, main one being my Creative Sound card, the other being the Menu in Crysis being un-navigable. (is that a word? Un-navigable? )

And DIRT didn't work but that game didn't work right in XP either.....

 

[guest_9323wk]

I'm using it and all seems fine to me.

 

[muckshifter]

I have no problems either ... lets here it for the folks who DON'T have a problem.

 

[itsme]

Hear! Hear!

Reading various articles Re: Download? mine came on > Download and let me choose when and what to install> Took a while to install but as I say No problems YET?

 

[muckshifter]

Some resources to assist your Windows Vista SP1 upgrade:


- Things to know about Windows Vista Service Pack 1
- Notable Changes in Windows Vista Service Pack 1
- Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Deployment Guide
- Release Notes for Windows Vista Service Pack 1
- Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Support
- Windows Service Pack blocker tool (for organisations that would like to temporarily prevent installation of Windows Service Pack updates through Windows Update)

 

[sahinraj]

Thx.

Thx Bro...

 

[Taffycat]

I've just installed SP1 via auto updates. I wondered why it hadn't downloaded earlier than this, but then I discovered that I'd overlooked the installation of an NVidia driver update. Anyway, once that was done, I was offered the SP1 update immediately It took about 30 - 35 minutes start to finish.

 

[floppybootstomp]

Microsoft still ain't done me with SP1 and I got auto-updates turned on. In fact, it just done 11 updates.

I have a beta version of the Nvidia drivers, one that's optimised for Unreal Tournament 3, I wonder if MS is baulking at that.

I shall just wait and see I guess as everything's running ok anyway

It can't have been within those 11 updates cos they only took about five minutes to do, btw.

And just by way of mentioning - and maybe I shouldn't tempt fate - but since installing Vista it hasn't crashed, locked up, given me a BSOD or thrown a hissy fit once. Pretty good eh?

And as mentioned elsewhere I've solved my Creative sound card problem and also my Crysis Game problem, although without the help of a third party writing new drivers, I still would have had the Creative problem.

 

[guest_9323wk]

Flops,

I was wondering if you would be able to let me know where you got your third party drivers for vista because I have the same problems in Vista?


Thanks,

wizkid