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

[Russell W. Coover]

Tilman and Lee, 

I've had no problem with my Netgear Wireless Router and Vista SP1. And as I
said earlier, I have installed SP1 on 5 computers, 3 of them mine, so I have
some experience with the Service Pack. When I last wrote, I said that I
encountered no problems with the Service Pack ... that changed when the two
printers I have (an HP Photosmart 8050 and a Brother MFC5840 CN) failed to
print. 

Fortunately, I was able to get the printers working by deleting the
printers, disconnecting them from the computers, deleting the drivers from
the computers and rebooting, reinstalling the drivers, rebooting, and then
reconnecting the computers. 

Evidently the installation of the Service Pack somehow made changes to the
drivers in such a way that they would not work. Their reinstallation
(without the printers being connected) fixed the problem. I wonder if this
might also work with Lee's wireless router. 

Another thought just struck me ... Lee's problem might not be with his
router. It might be with his Network Interface Card on his computer. If he
reinstalls SP1 and has the same problem, he should check his Device Manager
to see if the NIC is working properly, if not, uninstall it and reboot. 

Russ Coover

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of Tilman Brandl
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:46 AM
To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
Subject: Re: TSGL: MS SP1 for Vista--Anyone Else Having Problems??


<Most interesting for me is your disappointing result with the Netgear 
router >

Ouch - my fault, my router is a Netgear one, not a Linksys like yours ....

Sorry
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


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