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

[Lee Bunyard]

I disagree.  The LinkSys router is only a year old, worked fine with my 
old desktop running XP and worked fine with the new desktop running 
Vista.  Just didn't work after installing Vista SP1.  IMHO, MS should 
have identified the problem during the beta testing of SP1 and had 
either a solution during the installation or at least had a better 
explanation of the cause of the problem and what to do about it than the 
gobblygook error message that appeared on the screen.  FWIW, Information 
Week magazine is already reporting tons of people are bombarding them 
and MS blogs with problems with the SP1 release.  MS news releases now 
warn that SP1 is "not perfect".  So why did they release it from beta if 
they knew that??  Give me a break.
Lee in the Mountains of Northern California

ColinS wrote:
> 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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