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

[ColinS]

Hi

The issue here is not really the fault of MS, rather that of the driver and
device manufacturers. 

Consider how long Vista has been out, the changes made to the driver model
and other bits (for security reasons & in response to user demands) and how
long prior to the Vista release that the specifications were made available
to third party manufacturers, yet to this day many manufacturers do not have
compatible or stable drivers available.

It obviously easy to point the finger at MS but we should not be so hasty.

Cheers

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of Lee Bunyard
Sent: Thursday, 20 March 2008 6:23 a.m.
To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
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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