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

[Lee Bunyard]

Mike--based on my experience this a.m., I wouldn't recommend installing 
SP1 at this point to anyone.  I have an almost brand new desktop pc and 
have done all prior recommended Windows Updates and still had problems 
with two key programs.  The most serious of course was the disruption of 
my wireless network router which took out Internet connectivity on the 
desktop (but the wireless connectivity still worked OK on the laptop, 
thank goodness).  The PR that MS is putting out regarding the SP1 
installation is that there are only "a handful of software and hardware 
applications" that won't work with SP1, but the fact that I ended up 
with two problems on a near new desktop system makes me question that.  
I called both my son and daughter who are running pc's with Vista and 
told them to cancel the automatic Windows Updates and to not install SP1 
anytime soon.  I just talked to a friend of mine who is a high level IT 
manager in a very large private health provider corporation and she told 
me that the company decided last week to NOT install SP1 on any of their 
Vista pc's at this point.  They did the same thing with the XP SP2 
update and didn't experience any of the problems that many other public 
and private organizations experienced.

This type of problem is exactly the reason why I have always had Windows 
Update set to NOTIFY me of recommended updates and require my OK to 
download and install.  My mistake was in trusting MS to not release SP1 
from beta with major problems.  I was well aware that there were serious 
problems with a number of the beta releases, I should have known better.
Lee in the Mountains of Northern California
 

Mike Ferrell wrote:
> Lee,
> I am set up to automatically get the updates, etc., but apparently was not 
> on the initial "mailings" list, since I have not yet received anything.  Now 
> I'm thinking of making the necessary changes to take myself off the auto 
> update.  Good luck.
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tilman Brandl" <tbrandl2 at chello.at>
> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 1:47 PM
> Subject: Re: TSGL: MS SP1 for Vista--Anyone Else Having Problems??
>
>
>   
>> 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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