Windows Vista SP1 Your Views ?
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G25r8cer
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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
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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
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
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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
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
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.
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.