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hey,
i'm new to vista and i want to check if my computer has SP1, how do i do
that? and if it doesn't have SP1, what is the best way to go about getting it?
thanks
martin
 
hey,
i'm new to vista and i want to check if my computer has SP1, how do i do
that? and if it doesn't have SP1, what is the best way to go about getting it?
thanks
martin
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Further to Brink's post, if you're that new and you don't know how to
figure out whether you've got SP1 installed or not, ignore his advice about
installing the pre-release version and wait until the final version is
available on Windows Update.

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Further to both Brink and Paul's advice, since SP1 was only officially
released to manufacturing (RTM) yesterday, I don't think you'll find it
anywhere for a while quite yet. You may have installed a pre-release
version which you'll want to uninstall, but you won't find SP1 on any
computers, DVDs or from any reliable source yet.
 
hey,
i'm new to vista and i want to check if my computer has SP1, how do i do
that? and if it doesn't have SP1, what is the best way to go about getting it?
thanks
martin
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SP1 is NOT released to the public yet! It is still in he testing,
Beta, phase. DO NOT download it!!!! Yet.
 
hey,
i'm new to vista and i want to check if my computer has SP1, how do i do
that? and if it doesn't have SP1, what is the best way to go about getting it?
thanks
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You don't have it and you can *not* get it. Nobody has it (except in
test versions). It was just released to manufacturing and won't be
available to the public before mid-March.
 
hey,
i'm new to vista and i want to check if my computer has SP1, how do i do
that? and if it doesn't have SP1, what is the best way to go about getting
it?
thanks
martin
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Just in case it isn't clear, the reason you don't want to install a beta of
SP1 is because you will have to uninstall it before you can install the
official version when it becomes available. Personally I don't think it's
worth the time and risk - if the uninstall fails you might be looking at a
complete reinstall of Vista.
 
Just in case it isn't clear, the reason you don't want to install a beta of
SP1 is because you will have to uninstall it before you can install the
official version when it becomes available.
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My view is entirely different: The reason you don't want to install a
beta of SP1 (or any other beta, particularly of an operating system or
operating system upgrade) is because it's a test version, likely to
have all sorts of problems, and puts you at extreme risk of losing
everything on your machine.

Nobody should install such a beta version unless he is someone who
enjoys fooling around with whatever is newest (even if it's unstable)
and has a spare machine to fool around with it on. Putting a beta
Windows Service Pack on a production machine is looking for trouble.
 
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