TSGL: MS SP1 for Vista--Anyone Else Having Problems??

[Tilman Brandl]

Lee,

<Does anyone know what the impact will be of NOT installing Vista SP1??  >

So long I've only heard about possible impacts of installing it, and that 
otherwise it wouldn't really improve anything ... personally I haven't seen 
it as an option under updates sofar, but I'll check this later. Doing a 
restore is certainly a good idea if you're in a spot like this ...

< I  remember the mess that many people had with the XP SP2 update a few 
years back. >
So do I, and - earnestly - this sofar has kept me from rushing to that Vista 
update. I might well still wait another 4-6 months before I accept it, 
unless they force it on me.

Thanks for sharing your experience

Tilman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lee Bunyard" <leebunyard at comcast.net>
To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 6:22 PM
Subject: TSGL: MS SP1 for Vista--Anyone Else Having Problems??


> Service Pak 1 for Vista came out of Beta Tuesday and came up on my
> desktop pc as a Windows Update item this a.m., so I just finished
> downloading it--takes over an hour to download and install.  When it
> finished and re-booted, I discovered that
> 1) my ZoneAlarm Free firewall no longer works because of
> "incompatibility problems".  I had read that the Zone Alarm Internet
> Security Suite would not work with SP1 but had not heard that even the
> standalone basic Zone Alarm firewall doesn't work either.
>
> 2) I had no Internet connection.  Apparently there is a driver
> incompatibility with the LinkSys wireless router I use for the wireless
> connection to my laptop (which I am using of course to send this
> email).  With the usual gobblygook error message from MS, I checked to
> make sure the network boxes are properly checked per the MS instruction
> and they are.  Still doesn't work.  FWIW--my desktop running Vista is
> less than six months old, and the LinkSys router is about a year old.
>
> So now I am uninstalling the SP1 Pak.  It will take over an hour to do
> that and I can only hope that the pc boots up properly after doing so.
> Wish me luck.  I'll try System Restore I suppose if it doesn't.
>
> Does anyone know what the impact will be of NOT installing Vista SP1??
> I haven't read anything about that.
>
> No wonder so many people are so disgusted with MS.  Wouldn't you think
> that with the large number of LinkSys wireless routers out there that MS
> would have identified a potential problem in SP1 during all the beta
> testing that was done and offer a better solution??  But then again, I
> remember the mess that many people had with the XP SP2 update a few
> years back.
>
> OK, I got this off my chest, back to checking on the uninstall.
> Call me "Totally Disgusted Lee in the Mountains of Northern California"