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

Wed Mar 19 18:14:30 EDT 2008

As soon as I read your first post I made the necessary changes.  Thanks for 
the heads-up.  Now I'm wondering if my old Linksys (wired) router will work.
Mike
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lee Bunyard" <leebunyard at comcast.net>
To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: TSGL: MS SP1 for Vista--Anyone Else Having Problems??


> 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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