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

[Ron Brunton]

I've got some more experimenting to do, but when I installed SP1, some of
the fancy eye candy stopped working. The one I noticed was the 3DFlip
applet. I don't actually use it much, so I'm not sure what prompted me to
try it. When I went to the control panel/Personalization/Windows Color (sp)
and appearance I had the message that a feature (can't recall the
terminology) was disabled. I used System Restore and it's working again. 

The next thing I'll try is re-installing SP1 and then go through the steps
to turn on Aero.

Other than that, SP1 presented no problems.

Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of Tilman Brandl
Sent: March-20-08 11:46 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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