TSGL: More Vista SP1 Issues??

[Lee Bunyard]

I'm not sure what has changed or been lost on my desktop pc.  Prior to 
the installation/uninstallation of the SP1 update, my HDD space usage 
used to read "287 Gigs free of 363 Gigs Total" and now reads "329 Gigs 
free of 363 Total".  42 Gigs is a LOT of additional free space.  I've 
been examining Program Files and Installed Programs and don't find 
anything obvious that has changed.  My Installed Programs data is 
interesting however.  It shows 96 programs installed, which is about the 
number of programs that I had previously if I remember correctly, with 
total size of the 96 program installations using 6.66 Gigs of HDD 
(Unfortunately I don't recall what the total space usage of the 
installed programs was prior to SP1).  However when I checked each of 
the 96 programs to see how much HDD space usage each is using, each of 
the programs showed HDD space usage amounts EXCEPT for Adobe Flash 
Player Active X, Adobe Flash Player Plug In, Intel Network Connections 
Drivers, Microsoft Silverlight, and Nvidia Drivers--each of these had NO 
space usage shown.  I'm wondering if SP1 deleted these applications, 
particularly the Nvidia Drivers since as I said previously, I read in 
Info World on line that a number of people were reporting that their 
Nvidia drivers were totally gone after installation of SP1.  Frankly, 
I'm not real sure what the Nvidia drivers are, I believe they are 
graphic drivers primarily used for video games but I don't do video 
games so I wouldn't know whether I still have them or not.  I remember 
that the new HP desktop I bought a few months ago was advertised as 
having the latest and most high end Nvidia drivers available but I'm not 
enough of a computer techie to really know what that meant. 

Any idea how I can find out for sure if I have lost the Nvidia 
drivers??   Even if I have, I doubt that this would account for 42 Gigs 
of data lost.  And if I have lost the Nvidia drivers, I have no idea 
what to do to get them back.  I do have a full HDD image backup done of 
the desktop pc HDD on an external HDD using the Acronis True Image 
backup product.  I last did a full HDD backup several weeks ago but I 
don't really want to try to do a HDD restore unless I have to.  I'm 
really puzzled by the situation and not really sure what to do next.  
Especially since I haven't noticed any obvious problems with the desktop 
pc to this point.  I see that MS apparently has setup a free customer 
support line for questions and problems related to the SP1 installation 
and I may try calling them to see what they can tell me.
Lee in the Mountains of Northern California
Lost in Seattle and Still Looking for that Submarine.  .  .  .  .

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Tilman Brandl wrote:
> OH - "YOU'VE LOST ANOTHER SUBMARINE, ANDREI?" ....
> (I'm joking, sorry)
>
> Please keep us posted! If there was stuff lost necessary for your gear to 
> work correctly, that would be a real mess (and beyond expectations). Could 
> 42 GB just be old stuff and backuped installation files?
>
> Tilman
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Lee Bunyard" <leebunyard at comcast.net>
> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 5:00 PM
> Subject: TSGL: More Vista SP1 Issues??
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>
>   
>> Oh oh!!!  As a further followup to my problems Wednesday installing (and
>> later uninstalling) the Vista SP1 update--I just discovered that the
>> _free space_ on my desktop HDD has gone from 287 Gigs (before the SP1
>> problem--this has been the free space available for months and months)
>> to 329 Gigs (following the SP1 debacle).   It appears about 40 Gigs of
>> data is gone.  I honestly haven't missed anything so I'm not sure what
>> is gone but a lot of something is definitely gone.  I just read on Info
>> World that some people are reporting that all their Nvidia drivers were
>> totally gone after installation of SP1.
>>
>> More later.
>> Lee in the Mountains of Northern California
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