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

[Tilman Brandl]

Hi Lee,

your experiences are most interesting, to say the least, and certainly will 
save a few guys' - errrh - bacon. Congratulations to getting througn the 
scare of the uninstall process.

Most interesting for me is your disappointing result with the Netgear router 
not working after SP1. I've got a netgear piece myself, fortunately without 
SP1 on my Vista setup. One user more who'll wait some time, for sure.

As to the firewall, I've had severe problems with ZA lately on my (main) XP 
machine, so I've abandoned it and since then am using the one that came with 
XP. Additionally behind my router's firewall and ander strictest settings of 
the Avira AntiVir Guard I don't feel like being endangered at all. Btw, if 
I'm not mistaken, the Vista firewall is supposed to be a tad better than the 
XP one, and should rise to the occasion, I believe.

Thanks again
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 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: TSGL: MS SP1 for Vista--Anyone Else Having Problems??


> Tilman--I wish I had waited on Vista SP1 like I did with XP SP2--I
> waited for over six months before installing XP SP2 and I didn't have
> any problems with the installation at that point.
>
> The information I received on the Vista SP1 installation indicated that
> MOST of SP1 had been previously included in prior Windows Updates last
> fall and earlier this year, (all of which I have downloaded and
> installed), but that there are some new updates in SP1.
>
> Another FWIW--I just had a scare trying to uninstall SP1 on my new
> desktop.  SP1 installs and uninstalls in 3 separate stages, which take
> over an hour total.  During the install/uninstall process for each
> stage, access to the pc is removed, you can't even use the mouse.  The
> computer screen tells you DO NOT TURN OFF THE COMPUTER.  Just my luck
> that during the uninstall process, my desktop hung up right at the start
> of Stage 3--showing 0% uninstalled.  As you can imagine, my first
> thought was "Oh, Sh*t, now I'm really screwed".  I waited 15 minutes to
> see if it would do anything and it hadn't--the pc was totally locked
> up.  So I had no choice but to power off and restart it.  Much to my
> relief, the Stage 3 uninstall process started up again during the bootup
> process and finished.  The desktop booted up normally and all seems to
> work OK again.  I will definitely wait awhile before trying to install
> Vista SP1 again, you can bet on that.  In the meantime, I'm going to
> contact Cisco Corp re the LinkSys router and find out what they know
> about the problem and if they have a recommended fix.
>
> If the Zone Alarm software firewall won't work with Vista after
> installation of SP1, does anyone know of another free software firewall
> that will??   I know that I could run the Windows Firewall that's
> included with Vista but every evaluation I've read has rated the Windows
> Firewall near the bottom of the list for effectiveness.  I don't
> remember the names of the other free firewall products that were 
> evaluated.
> Lee in the Mountains of Northern California
>
> Tilman Brandl wrote:
>> 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