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sillyputty
Anyone having problems with Win 7 SP1? Wanted to get some feedback
before installing SP1, or not. Thx.
before installing SP1, or not. Thx.
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Nil
I'm sure *someone* out there is, but I'm not, and I haven't heard of
any widespread problems.
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Nobody > (Revisited)
Went fine here on 2 machines, on 7 Pro 32, the other 7 Ultimate 32.
By "Fine", all I can say is that I've not found anything "obviously
broken" yet. As with any WinUpdate, there probably is something borken
in it that they'll fix shortly (we hope).
Others have had problems, just plug "windows 7 sp1 problems" into a
search engine to see what's around.
IOW, there's *always* a problem(s) with *any* OS or application. All you
can hope is that *your* combination of software and hardware won't
trigger it/them. (and the worst part is finding them)
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ToolPackinMama
My upgrade went smoothly.
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GlowingBlueMist
Like most people I have had no problems during or since upgrading to SP1.
About the only people who seemed to have problems were people who tried
upgrading pre-release, beta versions, or those who tried to fake the
license activation using one of the many registry hacks.
One of the big problems was pre-release SP1 needed to be removed before
the final SP1 was installed. There may be some fighting between the
upgrade itself and some anti-virus programs that may trigger a false
positive since many of the operating files are being changed. Many
suggest disabling anti-virus prior to starting the actual upgrade due to
the above problem and that they will usually slow down the upgrade with
all the anti-virus file checks.
Here are a few links with how-to and such info.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2505743
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/learn-how-to-install-windows-7-service-pack-1-sp1
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Paul
sillyputty said:
My SP1 upgrade went smoothly, because I had a backup
Yours will too.If I didn't back up C:, I'm sure something strange would have happened.
You can uninstall SP1, as long as you don't use the special
Disk Cleanup option afterwards, to remove the files
associated with the install process. You can perhaps
save 1GB by erasing those files, and then discover later
that you need to uninstall SP1 again. Then you'd be screwed.
There are precious few repair options, once you've installed
SP1. At least, according to this. So take a look at this
first. This is not an argument to avoid installing SP1,
because sooner or later, you're going to have to install
it. This is just a warning about how the addition of a
service pack, changes things.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html
"If you have Windows 7 SP1 installed, then you either must
use a "retail" Windows 7 SP1 installation disc to be able
to do a repair install, or uninstall SP1 to be able to use
a retail Windows 7 installation disc to do a repair install
with."
"You cannot use a slipstream Windows 7 installation disc to
do a repair install with on a currently installed Windows 7 SP1."
All I have is the recovery partition on my laptop, which doesn't
qualify as anything like that. It doesn't look like I have
many prospects, for doing Repair Installs.
Paul
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John Doe
GlowingBlueMist said:
How do you know that? I have been using a workaround for Windows
XP product activation, for years, to avoid possible headaches.
I doubt that Windows product activation is compatible with making
backup copies of Windows, and I could not live without them.
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John Doe
Paul said:sillyputty wrote:
My SP1 upgrade went smoothly, because I had a backup
will too.
If I didn't back up C:, I'm sure something strange would have
happened.
Having backup copies of the Windows drive C partition is an
enormous confidence builder. It was a long long time ago when I
started, but I recall the change in usability. At first, when
something went wrong I would panic like before. As time went on,
using Windows became much easier. It's a whole new world.
Being without an easy to restore backup of Windows is sort of like
having to compose a document without making mistakes.
Good luck and have fun.
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What kind(s) of problems are you expecting?
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ToolPackinMama
I just make a copy of my World Of Warcraft folder
Everything elseis on disk or stored remotely.
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impaul
My SP1 upgrade went smoothly, because I had a backup
If I didn't back up C:, I'm sure something strange would have happened.
You can uninstall SP1, as long as you don't use the special
Disk Cleanup option afterwards, to remove the files
associated with the install process. You can perhaps
save 1GB by erasing those files, and then discover later
that you need to uninstall SP1 again. Then you'd be screwed.
There are precious few repair options, once you've installed
SP1. At least, according to this. So take a look at this
first. This is not an argument to avoid installing SP1,
because sooner or later, you're going to have to install
it. This is just a warning about how the addition of a
service pack, changes things.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html
"If you have Windows 7 SP1 installed, then you either must
use a "retail" Windows 7 SP1 installation disc to be able
to do a repair install, or uninstall SP1 to be able to use
a retail Windows 7 installation disc to do a repair install
with."
"You cannot use a slipstream Windows 7 installation disc to
do a repair install with on a currently installed Windows 7 SP1."
All I have is the recovery partition on my laptop, which doesn't
qualify as anything like that. It doesn't look like I have
many prospects, for doing Repair Installs.
Paul
Have the backup applications gotten "better" in that the software is
now able to restore individual applications such that only the
registry for the particular app is "restored"?
Many years ago, I've used a 4mm dat tape to backup but was never
able to restore satisfactorily due to the windows registry problems
as usually the registry is not "restored"/re-applied for individual
applications; this required a re-install of the software which defeats
the backup purposes.
I no longer backup the C: drive as my drives are partitioned & the
apps are in different partitions; still need to reinstall the apps but
my data is still inplace. I don't use Chrome as a browser because
it wants to put everything in the C drive & without any option for
installing it elsewhere. Some small stuff is installed in C, but
the downloaded small stuff is in another partition & directory so
they can be reinstalled quickly. This is for the desktop.
For the laptop, I waited too long & am able to only partition it
into 2 partitions. Originally, I didn't think it would matter but
have decided that it would be "safer" to try to have the os in
its own partition incase of reinstall even from the "secret"
partition.
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Pennywise
sillyputty said:
I installed win 7 xDark Deluxe x64 v3.5 RG
It went fine, I installed Win7 with great reluctance, it does things I don't
allow on other systems, DRM is also a biggie for me, I only use Win7 as a
dual boot and haven't used it for quite awhile now.
Battle Field 3 requires Win7 for it's DX11, so I see myself using it more
often as time goes on.
I run a quad core. Run: resmon, if you have more than two cores they have been
put to sleep or parked, I over clock for speed and Win7 shut down half my
threads.
Windows firewall isn't to be trusted as it allows certain companies to by pass
it (Adobe for one).
And that's off the top of my head, I don't wish to bash Win7 but it's an
operating system I'd rather not use. Yet must as the games I play are
beginning to use it as their platform. BF3 being the first to totally abandon
the XP.
Console games don't allow the freedom of a PC. Meaning I can use Xfire, Vent,
HLSW and play COD4/7. In my case host a MW2 server in the background as well.
(XP64bit).
Clean install with no problems. I installed it on it's own Hard drive so it
doesn't talk to XP, and select which hard drive to run through the bios.
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Capt Nemo
My upgrade went just fine. Before the upgrade I would get random blue
screens of death because of a memory dump situation. After the sp1 upgrade
not one single problem. Don't know for sure if it corrected it but something
did. Good luck to you.
screens of death because of a memory dump situation. After the sp1 upgrade
not one single problem. Don't know for sure if it corrected it but something
did. Good luck to you.
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Bug Dout
I had trouble after installation on an x64 machine...wouldn't bootsillyputty said:
correctly or something. Finally found the fix, rather obscure, on the
internet. A netbook install worked fine.
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Jure Sah
No big deal otherwise but SP1 replaces the boot loader so get legal
before you upgrade.
LP,
Jure
before you upgrade.
LP,
Jure