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

[Russell W. Coover]

Tilman, 

If you are using a German version of Vista, you probably won't see SP1 for
awhile. I'm not sure of the date of release, but you can probably find that
information on one of the excellent German technical web sites.

Russ Coover

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of Tilman Brandl
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:47 AM
To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
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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