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

Wed Mar 19 22:04:12 EDT 2008

Well, if I've saved someone some grief, then that's good at least.  It 
sure frustrated me, not to mention that I wasted the better part of half 
a day screwing around with it.  This was not my day for dealing with 
computers.  After I undid the mess created by the SP1 installation, my 
wife asked me to setup and install a new HP deskjet printer she just 
bought and wanted to set it up as a 2nd printer for the desktop pc.  
Naturally the USB cable for the printer was not quite long enough to 
reach to the back USB port on the CPU, and to mess things up further, 
when I pulled the CPU out to make the connection, I disconnected several 
other cable connections.  Believe me, there's nothing I enjoy more than 
lying on my back in the dark under the computer desk trying to reconnect 
cables--LMAO.  But I finally got it all straightened out and working 
fine.  I didn't get a chance to contact Cisco Corp re the LinkSys router 
problem and probably won't until Friday--I'm going skiing tomorrow while 
we still have halfway decent snow.   But I will let you know if I get a 
solution to the problem.  My LinkSys is a WRT54GS.  I'm not sure what 
the difference is with the "S" product but I suspect it's pretty much 
the same router you have.  Thanks for the sympathies.  LOL
Lee in the Mountains of Northern California

H Davis wrote:
> 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:
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>> 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:
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>>> 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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