Vista Service Pack 1

jpfahy

This is now available for download, has anyone tried it, and whats the verdict

Stephen

I've been running it for over a month on Vista x64. Seems good to me.

An Fear Aniar

From what I gather, it's not got anything much that's worth getting. For the amount of memory it takes up.

I've got no problems with Vista so I'm not going near it.

If you have specific problems I would get a patch just to fix that, but with SP1 you'd be downloading a bloated pack of fixes you probably won't ever need.


Just MHO.

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kaimera

jpfahy wrote: »

This is now available for download, has anyone tried it, and whats the verdict

Should prolly use the search function. Big thread on SP1 before.

Running x64 with SP1 also with no issues. Seems more responsive and file transfer speeds have been fixed.

An Fear Aniar

Does it help with downlaod spped from teh interweb?

Like Youporn videos?

That's the only problem I have with my yoke.

If it improves that then I'd get SP1 bit I have a feeling that's an issue with bandwidth on my wireless broadband.



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Kinetic^

Stephen wrote: »

I've been running it for over a month on Vista x64. Seems good to me.

Aye, same. Not a bother.

Soundman

Still not appearing for me for some reason. Vista Business here.

dulpit

Soundman wrote: »

Still not appearing for me for some reason. Vista Business here.

I think when it was launched first there was something about that if you have some drivers that are incompatible it won't show up... I know i had to update some drivers (sound ones) for it to show up...

Soundman

Yeah, I saw that about the drivers in the original thread on this, but I am fully up to date on ALL drivers and I'm still not seeing anything, which I find strange. It isn't anything to do with the language pack either as I am using the English one. Been through the knowledge base and can't see any other reason to be honest.

Thanks anyway though.

Stephen

If you want you can download the offline installation package manually from Microsoft and get it that way.

dave13

Soundman wrote: »

Yeah, I saw that about the drivers in the original thread on this, but I am fully up to date on ALL drivers and I'm still not seeing anything, which I find strange. It isn't anything to do with the language pack either as I am using the English one. Been through the knowledge base and can't see any other reason to be honest.

Thanks anyway though.

Do you have a dell by any chance? if you do the realtek sound driver needs to be upgraded. if you try to upgrade the driver through windows it'll say it doesn't need to be upgraded.

Soundman

wonderboy wrote: »

Do you have a dell by any chance? if you do the realtek sound driver needs to be upgraded. if you try to upgrade the driver through windows it'll say it doesn't need to be upgraded.

I have a Lenovo, and as I said in the post you quoted... I am fully up to date on ALL drivers.

Tried installing the standalone version from the Microsoft site and just got a could not install dialogue and that it would revert changes. Found out after that that the failed upgrade managed to corrupt a lot of my system files so I can't run chkdsk, memtest and possibly a few others. Tried doing an upgrade install of Vista to try and sort those out but it won't even let me do that. Looks like I'm going to have to do a poxy fresh install after all the hard work upgrading drivers and getting the comp just the way I like it.


:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

mathias

Looks like I'm going to have to do a poxy fresh install after all the hard work upgrading drivers and getting the comp just the way I like it.

Next time you get it where you like it , download clonezilla and make an image of your hard drive , and put it somewhere safe ! It takes ten minutes !
Do that once a month , and youll never be in that nasty situation again.

Sherifu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPv8PPl7ANU

MooseJam

I'm actually installing it now, not expecting much.

byte

Soundman wrote: »

Still not appearing for me for some reason. Vista Business here.

Wasn't appearing for me either (Vista Business), so just downloaded manually from MS' site.

I have a Dell, which may have some bearing judging from previos posts regarding soundcard, though sound is still working OK...

windowsnt_cork

Have successfully installed SP1 on my Vista Home Premium Dell Inspiron - Dual core AMD, 2GB RAM, Nvidia Graphics card.

Windowsupdate was not offering me SP1 (Realtek HD Audio Drivers issue I believe) so I download the 400mb+ version of SP1.

Before installing:-

a) Update Realtek HD Audio drivers from http://tinyurl.com/yjvyhr

b) Uninstalled Logitech Pro 5000 web cam

c) Removed UPS usb sensor cable

d) Unplugged all other usb devices

e) Ran Windows Update twice (first time got yet another update for NVIDIA and older REALTEK drivers (but from Microsoft) - so decided to let windows have its preferences in this respect.

The second time to see if any other updates turned up or indeed is SP1 was suddenly available - alas not a sausage)

f) Backed up all important data to external drive

g) Shut down extraneous services in Task Pane - stop AV resident shield service

h) Run SP1 and go and make tea

The whole process took about an hour, was seamless and I was able to reinstall the Logitek cam from drivers offered me by Windows update in no time at all.

Post install my PC is running really well and, so far, there are no issues at all.

Hope this is of some help to others wanting to take the plunge and install SP1.


Steve

god's toy

Was running a beta SP1 on Vista 32 for about 5 months with no probs at all, in fact it help it in many ways.

the official release SP1 on 64 is just as good I feel and transferring huge files via USB is a joy now.:)

(well OK, maybe not a 'joy' but it's a hell of a lot faster!)

Overheal

what transfer rate do you get ive never seen anything faster than 12mbps

MooseJam

you can transfer files at 12mbps ? what broadband do you have

Overheal

Usb...

Black Swan

I thought SP1 was being given to us piecemeal over the past few months, in all their numerous patches, updates, definitions, etc.?

challengemaster

Running it on my lappy fine for ages now..

Simplicity

I can't tell from reading the thread so don't kill me, but is this coming through MS update or do you have to go get it from their site? I did an msupdate a few days ago and there were about 11 updates?

Any help appreciated.

challengemaster

Check your update history and see if it downloaded in that.

MooseJam

Overheal wrote: »

Usb...

oh lol

Simplicity

challengemaster wrote: »

Check your update history and see if it downloaded in that.

Good idea. Nowt in there that looks like an SP1 so downloading as I type. Hope this doesn't feck up anything.

Simplicity

hmmm

i have a .sys, .inf and .cat ......

How exactly do I install this?

mathias

I thought SP1 was being given to us piecemeal over the past few months, in all their numerous patches, updates, definitions, etc.?

It is/was , thats why if you can see it in windows update the download is way smaller , otherwise you have to download the pack which is huge , 400MB + and the pack would include a lot of stuff you already have.

Soundman

Soundman wrote: »

I have a Lenovo, and as I said in the post you quoted... I am fully up to date on ALL drivers.

Tried installing the standalone version from the Microsoft site and just got a could not install dialogue and that it would revert changes. Found out after that that the failed upgrade managed to corrupt a lot of my system files so I can't run chkdsk, memtest and possibly a few others. Tried doing an upgrade install of Vista to try and sort those out but it won't even let me do that. Looks like I'm going to have to do a poxy fresh install after all the hard work upgrading drivers and getting the comp just the way I like it.


:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Looks like I have found out what got screwed up. Looks like my MBR got corrupted so I'm going to have to wait til I go home next and grab my Vista disk to do a fixmbr on it.

papu

Overheal wrote: »

what transfer rate do you get ive never seen anything faster than 12mbps

36mb/s to external usb2.0 hdd
12-8mb/s 10/100 lan
havent tried across same pc hdd's as my laptop only has the one.

overall much increased speed , responsiveness over non sp1 vista
for anyone with vista i highly recommend it.

Loveless

Got an official Vista DVD w/SP1 integrated which I installed last weekend.
Yeah it's running fine.. :cool:

(P4 3.0GHz, 1.5GB PC3200 RAM, Intel 865 chipset, 2xSATA drives, ATI 9600 AGP)


actually I lie... it doesn't pick up the Creative Audigy card I have properly, so I have to disable that soundcard and enable the onboard audio which is Realtek. So sometimes the Realtek driver just 'cuts out' and you've to reboot to get the sound working again. (Had the same problem pre-SP1 though.)

And my Trendnet wireless network card caused four BSODs on Sunday. When I downloaded the proper Vista driver from the manufacturer, Vista would let me install it, saying that 'the Microsoft driver was already up-to-date'.

Overheal

Okay so I woke up today and this has finally showed up in my Windows Update tool.

Before I install whats everyone's final verdict?

Sherifu

It's solid.

papu

yeah it really is a must