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

[Lee Bunyard]

Tilman--I wish I had waited on Vista SP1 like I did with XP SP2--I 
waited for over six months before installing XP SP2 and I didn't have 
any problems with the installation at that point.

The information I received on the Vista SP1 installation indicated that 
MOST of SP1 had been previously included in prior Windows Updates last 
fall and earlier this year, (all of which I have downloaded and 
installed), but that there are some new updates in SP1.  

Another FWIW--I just had a scare trying to uninstall SP1 on my new 
desktop.  SP1 installs and uninstalls in 3 separate stages, which take 
over an hour total.  During the install/uninstall process for each 
stage, access to the pc is removed, you can't even use the mouse.  The 
computer screen tells you DO NOT TURN OFF THE COMPUTER.  Just my luck 
that during the uninstall process, my desktop hung up right at the start 
of Stage 3--showing 0% uninstalled.  As you can imagine, my first 
thought was "Oh, Sh*t, now I'm really screwed".  I waited 15 minutes to 
see if it would do anything and it hadn't--the pc was totally locked 
up.  So I had no choice but to power off and restart it.  Much to my 
relief, the Stage 3 uninstall process started up again during the bootup 
process and finished.  The desktop booted up normally and all seems to 
work OK again.  I will definitely wait awhile before trying to install 
Vista SP1 again, you can bet on that.  In the meantime, I'm going to 
contact Cisco Corp re the LinkSys router and find out what they know 
about the problem and if they have a recommended fix.

If the Zone Alarm software firewall won't work with Vista after 
installation of SP1, does anyone know of another free software firewall 
that will??   I know that I could run the Windows Firewall that's 
included with Vista but every evaluation I've read has rated the Windows 
Firewall near the bottom of the list for effectiveness.  I don't 
remember the names of the other free firewall products that were evaluated.
Lee in the Mountains of Northern California

Tilman Brandl wrote:
> 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"
>>     
>
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