SP1 Worth Installing?

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Do you suggest just waiting until all the problems are resolved?

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Do the research. IMHO, unless you are in the minority group using hardware
with problematic drivers (those that will not reinstall automatically after
application of SP1), you should definitely install it. It does improve the
Vista experience. I've had no issues applying SP1 to all three of my Vista
PC's.
 
From what I can tell from the responses, so far it's doing more good than
hard. But you have to ask yourself, "self, am I having any problems?" If
not, wait a while. Some people with no problems have problems after
installing SP1. Cases where you bought a machine with Vista installed
already have the least problems. Cases where it was an older system where
drivers were forced, or otherwise found as an alternate, can be problematic
once again.

There is one area to consider, performance and speed has been reported as
improved. So if that's an important issue to you, then you might consider
upgrading. But if you are spending most of you time IN a work applications,
operating at human factor interactive speeds, probably not.
 
Well...I had no problems with Vista Home Premium, and have a very ordinary
mainstream HP computer with no unusual peripherals or drivers, and SP1 my
attempt to install SP1 through automatic Windows Update has completely
disabled my system to an unbootable state.

I am browsing these forums (from a different computer) looking for
solutions.

I'd say wait. There is definitely something wrong with SP1. If it were 1%
of computers with oddbval hardware having problems, that would be different.
But just checking the web today, it seems like the problems are quite
widespread.
 
Bob F. said:
From what I can tell from the responses, so far it's doing more good than
hard.
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Ha ! You have to realize that there are probably a lot of people with hosed
systems who aren't posting today......because they can't reboot (like me). :)
 
....and reading between the lines of the rest of what I wrote, are you in the
category of the tinkerer, with a complex machine, and making all kinds of,
maybe, registry entries, or in the category of a straight "simple" OEM that
came with VISTA? Just curious.
 
The best way to install a Service Pack is to do a clean install of the OS.
Remember the original mess of just downloading SP2 to XP.
 
I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. I installed SP1 on a machine with Vista
Premium a one with Vista Ultimate and both of them seem to be OK. Although
I'm not sure what SP1 did - I really can't see any difference. But then I
really have not investigated what it fixed.

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Ken said:
I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. I installed SP1 on a machine with Vista
Premium a one with Vista Ultimate and both of them seem to be OK. Although
I'm not sure what SP1 did - I really can't see any difference. But then I
really have not investigated what it fixed.
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Most installs goes fine, when it was released to testers a month or two back
it was blasted out to dozens of machines here without any issues.

I keep my machines well maintained with no poorly written 3rd party
software, or security suites trying to integrate into everything and the
like which is probably responsible for the majority of people's computing
problems.

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Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
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Well, most folks that don't have issue, aren't going to search this forum
out and post their experience, usually it is from folks that are looking to
solve an issue.

I went ahead and installed it this morning, for my Vista Ultimate 64 bit. I
did not see a lot of problems folks were having here, at least not enough to
cause me concern.

It installed just fine for me, total time to install from launching the SP1
file ( I installed from the complete downloaded file ), to the final boot to
the desktop where I got the installation successful message, was 32 minutes.

Seems to be running well, shutdown is certainly faster for me. Start up does
not appear to be any quicker, although I am sure it is rebuilding the
prefetch file and will probably speed up. My system performance was already
very good, so don't know that I notice any major speed difference just yet.
I definitely like, that you can now choose to defrag individual volumes from
the defrag gui, rather than having to run it from the run command to get it
to defrag a single volume.
 
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