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

[H Davis]

My sympathies Lee, but you've probably saved the rest of us a lot of 
grief. Please update us if you get the LinkSys router problem worked 
out. I have a WRT54G which I assume is what you have, so I'm very 
interested in that solution.

H Davis

Lee Bunyard wrote:
> 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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