Windows Vista SP1 Initial Thoughts

re: Windows Vista SP1 Initial Thoughts

Justice — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:35:47 GMT

Windows Home Server’s Drive Extender technology causes data corruption with the following software applications,

Microsoft Windows Vista Photo Gallery

Microsoft Windows Live Photo Gallery

Microsoft Office OneNote 2007

Microsoft Office OneNote 2003

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007

Microsoft Money 2007

Microsoft Office Excel

Microsoft Windows Media Player 11

Microsoft Zune Software

Microsoft Virtual PC 2008

Microsoft Digital Image Library

Microsoft Project 2000

Microsoft SyncToy 2.0 Beta

* Various Bittorrent applications

* Intuit Quicken

* QuickBooks

See KB 946676

www.support.microsoft.com/kb/946676

re: Windows Vista SP1 Initial Thoughts

tino — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:12:03 GMT

Maybe there is really a reason why SP1 is not released yet? Your problems could be some drivers issues.

re: Windows Vista SP1 Initial Thoughts

Jeff — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:17:06 GMT

Don't worry everyone - Aubrey's just been spending too much time around Macs lately. He'll come back to reality one of these days :P

But seriously - I've had mostly good luck with SP1 'upgrades'. I've upgraded one of my home PCs to SP1 (my Media Center PC) and also my wife's Lenovo X61 tablet. Both went off without a hitch. However, I have had problems with Vista SP1 x64 on my boat anchor (er, Dell D830). But I'm going to blame that on the high-quality Dell drivers ;)

re: Windows Vista SP1 Initial Thoughts

sscott — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:18:22 GMT

SP1 constantly BSOD's my laptop. I finally had to remove it, and I won't be installing it anytime soon again.

re: Windows Vista SP1 Initial Thoughts

Jason Cox — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:36:13 GMT

I've had no real problems with SP1. My Vista install on my desktop is the copy us BT's got on Connect when it RTM'd and I've had no issues with that machine. My first laptop has an install thats about a year old, again, no issues. My new laptop installed SP1 in about 20 minutes (I'm not joking), again, no problems.

The only machine I had a problem with is my work desktop because Intel NIC drivers weren't SP1 compatible.

The only app crashes I've had any all of the machines is IE and that can be traced back to Flash issues.

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re: Windows Vista SP1 Initial Thoughts

Pinchy — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:37:37 GMT

I've been running the SP1 update for two days now, and have had nothing but a smile on my face. For me, all the network problems that we both shared in Vista RTM have all disappeared. I have a folder on a network share that contains 503 subfolders, and a total of about 6000 files and folders below that. Before SP1 there were times I could wait for 10-15 seconds to see the full folder listing - now it's immediate. Copying to and from a network folder is considerably faster too - although I notice that the biggest enhancement is in the fact it doesn't sit there for 30 seconds deciding how long it's going to take to transfer the file!

I'd be curious to see you do a Vista SP1 installation from scratch (ie. wipe and reload, but using a SP1 integrated source like the Technet ones available now). I suspect you'd likely find something in your installation that is causing the problem, and not SP1 itself.

I don't think my startup time has changed much, not enough to be noticable anyway. But, I did notice that DreamScene now works correctly when rebooting and having a dual-monitor setup. So there's another plus - I finally get my waterfalls desktop that everyone asks how I did that.... LOL

God only knows how much faster my computer became when I ditched my iPhone and all it's iTunes crap and processes.... <hint hint LOL>

Have you tried using the resouce monitor or any other utilities to see what is actually sucking up all the time when you are waiting? There might be a hint there as to what is causing it - maybe a driver or background process isn't playing nice anymore in SP1.

Good luck and happy computing!

re: Windows Vista SP1 Initial Thoughts

Sripraneeth — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:45:37 GMT

To be frank. I have installed SP1 faced almost all problems mentioned above and uninstalled it. now i am happy with just Vista. SP1 made my system unstable.

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re: Windows Vista SP1 Initial Thoughts

Frank -Snuffy — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:13:12 GMT

I have enjoyed SP1. from cold start to full operation, Internet, AV, 2 monitor programs, 52 services, 2m 51s, which is faster than Vista at 3m 27s.

re: Windows Vista SP1 Initial Thoughts

Jaxim — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:59:48 GMT

"Now I just have to decide whether to just uninstall SP1, or bite the bullet, wipe my machine, and reinstall XP."

If you didn't have any problems with Vista to begin with, then why revert back all the way back to XP? I have no problems with Vista, but I know with any Windows Updates, I'm not going to be a pioneer and be surprised when I find arrows sticking out from my back.

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Aubrey — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:02:48 GMT

Interesting on the TS manager, mine still doesn't work. Maybe I'll try reinstalling the adminpak and see if that makes a difference.

re: Windows Vista SP1 Initial Thoughts

Nick — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:57:20 GMT

SP1 has made video playback really murkey now for me. MCE judderes when playing live TV in window'd mode. The colors are fadded.

Sometimes when I hibinate my laptop it crashes windows and restarts my laptop. Drained the battery when it did that on the train. Never had that problem with RTM

But it has made my laptop slightly faster.

re: Windows Vista SP1 Initial Thoughts

Tyler — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:51:27 GMT

SP1 on my laptop has actually made my laptop usable. Just about everything is much faster. TS manager works for me, previously it did not. The only thing that has seemed to be slower is setting NTFS permissions on a remote machine.

IE 7 has only stopped responding once in the past week. Prior to SP1 IE 7 would crash 2-3 times a day.