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

[Lee Bunyard]

Comodo does have a version for Vista, Mike.
Lee in the Mountains of Northern California

Mike Ferrell wrote:
> Russ,
> Is Comodo updated for Vista now?  I took a look at it some time ago and it 
> was not.
> Mike
>
> ----- 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 2:11 AM
> Subject: Re: TSGL: MS SP1 for Vista--Anyone Else Having Problems??
>
>
>   
>> I have installed SP1 on 5 separate machines without a problem of any kind.
>> None of those machines ran Zone Alarm, so I haven't had any experience 
>> with
>> that problem. I suggest you may want to go to MS's firewall already
>> installed on all Vista machines, or perhaps download and use the Comodo
>> Firewall, which a whole lot of people seem to like.
>>
>> Like Zone Alarm, I have had no experience with Linksys. I tend to 
>> recommend
>> and use Netgear, though I have heard good thinks about Linksys. I don't
>> recommend you change routers if yours works satisfactorily, but you might
>> want to check with Linksys to determine if they have a software update to
>> fix any SP1 problem.
>>
>> And yes, I do recommend you run SP1 when you can get it to work with your
>> router.
>>
>> Russ Coover
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
>> Behalf Of Lee Bunyard
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:23 AM
>> To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
>> 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"
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