January 12th, 2008
Windows Vista SP1 RC Refresh Now Public
By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Just a couple of days after sending the Vista SP1 Release Candidate (RC )Refresh to their private beta testers, Microsoft on Friday made an RC Refresh available to the public. Just as with the earlier public RC, the download is small, making a change to the registry to allow you to download the RC Refresh from Windows Update.
Before installing the refresh, you have to uninstall any older versions of SP1. Here are the instructions, including something you really need to pay attention to:
To uninstall previous version of Windows Vista SP1
“Please wait one hour.” Whaat. Now that’s a new one. The installer service needs to clean up for an hour? Wow. I’m not sure what I think about that.
We Say: At any rate, I personally will continue to wait for the SP1 release. All this uninstall / reinstall is far too much trouble for me. Plus, I prefer not to install beta software if I can avoid it.
If you’d like to try it, here’s the page.
AhmadAmir says:
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January 12th, 2008 at 3:42 am
IcePick says:
I installed SP1 RC1 last night. It took hours to get it all downloaded through updates.
So far it has fixed one of the major issues I had with Vista; which was when a laptop that is a member of an AD is connected to a network but can not communicate with the AD it would take a long time to open applications and other functions. I mean 1 to 2 minutes to startup My Computer or the MSTS client.
January 12th, 2008 at 7:12 am
musicman says:
Found out about SP1 RC from a MS software engineer shopping at my store. He look like a Deer in headlights when I asked him about my Vista OS system performance.
January 13th, 2008 at 2:06 am
Windows Observer » Blog Archive » Windows Vista Google Alerts for 12 Jan 2008 says:
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January 13th, 2008 at 2:23 am
Michael Forry says:
Installed yesterday - main SP1 download for me was only around 67MB - downloaded REAL slow though. That was for Vista Ultimate 32bit
Seems snappier on some things, like checking for updates. Other than that, I dont really notice anything.
Mike
Might be trying Vista 64 this week, again. Figure i might as well see how compatibility has come along for the 64bit OS - it sucked a year ago!
January 14th, 2008 at 3:50 am
TechToll - Technology News Blog says:
Near-final Vista SP1 RC Refresh goes public…
Microsoft has made Vista’s Service Pack 1 near-final “release candidate” available for download to the general public, after initially choosing to restrict it to 15,000 beta testers when it debuted last week. According to a blog by…
January 14th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Al Kolkin says:
WOW! This refresh finally cured the inability of my computer to hibernate and then recover. It was always able to hibernate, but it never could recover. Prior to RC1 the hard disk would not spin up and stay spinning. After RC1 the hard disk spinned correctly, but the display would not recover. Now everything works perfectly and my system is a speed demon!
January 14th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
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May 18th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
搬屋公司 says:
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May 26th, 2008 at 7:47 am