Windows Vista SP1 Your Views ?

PC eye · 03-31-2008, 07:26 AM

I'm not a bit surprised to hear that some minor annoyances are going to be seen. Look at how many went bonkers when XP's SP2 caused issues when that first came out.

g25racer · 03-31-2008, 08:30 PM

Not many problems here other than explorer.exe has been acting up more than usual and the stupid ram recognizing issue is kinda dumb!! I have noticed that vista starts up a little faster than usual and windows media player has gotten alot of needed help from sp1. WMP 11 is way faster now for me. I need that extra boost in performance as searching through 3,000+ songs at 16gb+ can put alot of strain on WMP.

**The_Other_One** · 03-31-2008, 11:19 PM

I've never been a fan of upgrades; patches or system upgrades. They've always resulted in very bad experiences for me. Unless you start with a fresh install then upgrade that, there almost always seems to be problems in the end.

I may wait and hope my University releases a copy of Vista Business SP1 for us to download and just reload my new machine that way rather than trying another upgrade. I mean as long as it took to fail last time, loading a whole new OS shouldn't be that much worse

Kesava · 03-31-2008, 11:56 PM

ok heres what happened to me... not much really but,

tv tuner stopped working, tried setting it up again and all that... didnt work.

dvd drive stuffed up. usually when installing games it spins really fast and loud.
but it would only spin very slowly and quietly.
therefore installation for cod4 took about 45 minutes.

both problems were fixed when i uninstalled SP1

cod4 installed in about 5 minutes

g25racer · 04-01-2008, 12:16 AM

That sucks!! LOL

Kesava · 04-01-2008, 12:27 AM

yeah... but i didnt notice any good things from sp1, which means i dont mind not having it

PC eye · 04-01-2008, 02:11 AM

Maybe you have too much running in the background to see the updates go on good. In additional to seeing the roll up of fixes and security updates the installer also will see driver updates downloaded.

That will also include drivers for things like tv tuner cards where the latest goofs the current install. When seeing an automatic update for the tuner card used here go on the display portion of the program not the controller panel will not come up. Or if it does nothing but a black screen is seen while an active signal is present.

The solution? Remove it all, restart the system as part of the removal, run the installer and then reboot again to then recofigure all settings to then see the original software and drivers working normally again. Yet for the usual MS updates no problems are seen just with 3rd party apps and devices.

03-31-2008, 07:26 AM	#21 (permalink)
PC eye Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 19,005	I'm not a bit surprised to hear that some minor annoyances are going to be seen. Look at how many went bonkers when XP's SP2 caused issues when that first came out. __________________ Youtube falls short of Google's expectations http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Ahe...ory?id=5336532 Congress studies how people track your online use http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Ahe...ory?id=5337932

03-31-2008, 08:30 PM	#22 (permalink)
g25racer Diamond Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 3,583	Not many problems here other than explorer.exe has been acting up more than usual and the stupid ram recognizing issue is kinda dumb!! I have noticed that vista starts up a little faster than usual and windows media player has gotten alot of needed help from sp1. WMP 11 is way faster now for me. I need that extra boost in performance as searching through 3,000+ songs at 16gb+ can put alot of strain on WMP. __________________ CPU - AMD Athlon 64x2 5200+ @ 2.6ghz Ram - 2GB Stock clock HD - 320gb seagate & Samsung 750gb 32mb cache GPU - XFX 8600GT XXX Zalman @ 680 or 700mhz PSU - Ultra X-finity 600watt OS - Vista Home Premium(32) & XP Pro and Vista Audio - JVC 460watts Control - Logitech G25 Wheel & Logitech Rumblepad 2 Games - GTR2 and LFS -- Race Sim's for Life --

03-31-2008, 11:19 PM	#23 (permalink)
The_Other_One Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Lexington, NC Age: 23 Posts: 12,307	I've never been a fan of upgrades; patches or system upgrades. They've always resulted in very bad experiences for me. Unless you start with a fresh install then upgrade that, there almost always seems to be problems in the end. I may wait and hope my University releases a copy of Vista Business SP1 for us to download and just reload my new machine that way rather than trying another upgrade. I mean as long as it took to fail last time, loading a whole new OS shouldn't be that much worse __________________ Urban De-Development * Athlon X2 4200 \| 2048M RAM \| 160G HD \| 7600GT * C2D T5250 \| 2048M RAM \| 160G HD \| Intel x3100 * G4 1.33GHz \| 512M RAM \| 40G HD \| Radeon 9200

03-31-2008, 11:56 PM	#24 (permalink)
Kesava Diamond Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Australia Age: 17 Posts: 2,992	ok heres what happened to me... not much really but, tv tuner stopped working, tried setting it up again and all that... didnt work. dvd drive stuffed up. usually when installing games it spins really fast and loud. but it would only spin very slowly and quietly. therefore installation for cod4 took about 45 minutes. both problems were fixed when i uninstalled SP1 cod4 installed in about 5 minutes __________________ formerly Kuzba Cpu:Intel Q6600 2.4Ghz @ 3.4Ghz Hsf:Zalman CNPS 9700 LED Ram:Generic 2 Gb 800 Mhz Gpu:XFX 8800 GT 512mb @ 700/1750/2000 Mobo:Gigabyte P31-DS3L Case:Centurion 532 3dmark06:13518 MSN=kesava8@hotmail.com

04-01-2008, 12:16 AM	#25 (permalink)
g25racer Diamond Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 3,583	That sucks!! LOL __________________ CPU - AMD Athlon 64x2 5200+ @ 2.6ghz Ram - 2GB Stock clock HD - 320gb seagate & Samsung 750gb 32mb cache GPU - XFX 8600GT XXX Zalman @ 680 or 700mhz PSU - Ultra X-finity 600watt OS - Vista Home Premium(32) & XP Pro and Vista Audio - JVC 460watts Control - Logitech G25 Wheel & Logitech Rumblepad 2 Games - GTR2 and LFS -- Race Sim's for Life --

04-01-2008, 12:27 AM	#26 (permalink)
Kesava Diamond Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Australia Age: 17 Posts: 2,992	yeah... but i didnt notice any good things from sp1, which means i dont mind not having it __________________ formerly Kuzba Cpu:Intel Q6600 2.4Ghz @ 3.4Ghz Hsf:Zalman CNPS 9700 LED Ram:Generic 2 Gb 800 Mhz Gpu:XFX 8800 GT 512mb @ 700/1750/2000 Mobo:Gigabyte P31-DS3L Case:Centurion 532 3dmark06:13518 MSN=kesava8@hotmail.com

04-01-2008, 02:11 AM	#27 (permalink)
PC eye Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 19,005	Maybe you have too much running in the background to see the updates go on good. In additional to seeing the roll up of fixes and security updates the installer also will see driver updates downloaded. That will also include drivers for things like tv tuner cards where the latest goofs the current install. When seeing an automatic update for the tuner card used here go on the display portion of the program not the controller panel will not come up. Or if it does nothing but a black screen is seen while an active signal is present. The solution? Remove it all, restart the system as part of the removal, run the installer and then reboot again to then recofigure all settings to then see the original software and drivers working normally again. Yet for the usual MS updates no problems are seen just with 3rd party apps and devices. __________________ Youtube falls short of Google's expectations http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Ahe...ory?id=5336532 Congress studies how people track your online use http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Ahe...ory?id=5337932

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