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

[Tilman Brandl]

Russ,

> If you are using a German version of Vista, you probably won't see SP1 for
> awhile

That's correct, I think. I'm not holding my breath ;-)

Tilman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russell W. Coover" <coover at fastmail.fm>
To: "'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'" <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:15 AM
Subject: Re: TSGL: MS SP1 for Vista--Anyone Else Having Problems??


> 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"