Anyone Tried Vista SP1 RC Yet??

[godsdog]

Download details: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC Public Availability Program

Humm?? any of you cute little cup cakes tried it?? (not that I advocate running beta service packs)

[Clunk]

I haven't, mainly because I put my machines back to XP.

I will be interested to see what everyone else makes of it though

[Clunk]

Nobody had a go yet?

[godsdog]

I might break a rule and give it a spin on the laptop whirlygigwhatnot. I'm shuffling around looking for early reliable feedback first.

[Clunk]

I'm not entirely sure if I have managed to install it or not

I downloaded the file from the above link, then it opened a dos shell thing, and asked me if I wanted to allow windows update to grab SP1.

Next, it downloaded a 4meg file that said it was required to have before SP1 could be downloaded.

Installed that, rebooted, it said no updates available, so I checked again, and this time there was a 4.1meg file, again it said that this was required to download the SP1.

Installed that, and now there's no updates...where the arse is the service pack eh?

Edit: There it is, 5 mins later. 51MB - 519MB

Edit 2: 52.5MB total

Edit 3: Same download, now 77.2megs - weird.

Edit 4: Got stuck at 95% for an hour. Stopped it, restarted it and its installing. Seems this is still very beta-esque at the moment.

[godsdog]

If you have a look at the "Overview" on that link I would guess that the part where it says "Windows Vista SP1 RC requires the installation of either two or three prerequisite updates prior to installing the service pack itself" kicked in, and what with you having a brand new install it might have actually gone and got said "two or three prerequisite updates" during installation, hence...

Originally Posted by Clunk

I downloaded the file from the above link, then it opened a dos shell thing, and asked me if I wanted to allow windows update to grab SP1.

Next, it downloaded a 4meg file that said it was required to have before SP1 could be downloaded.

Installed that, rebooted, it said no updates available, so I checked again, and this time there was a 4.1meg file, again it said that this was required to download the SP1.

Installed that, and now there's no updates...where the arse is the service pack eh?

Edit: There it is, 5 mins later. 51MB - 519MB

Edit 2: 52.5MB total

Edit 3: Same download, now 77.2megs - weird.

Edit 4: Got stuck at 95% for an hour. Stopped it, restarted it and its installing. Seems this is still very beta-esque at the moment.

Anyhoo's, there's further information regarding changes made in SP1 in this TechNet article. Glad to see you made it through, now let's see what the runnning part is like for you...



let's see you say:

[Clunk]

Yes, you're right - Got fed up of waiting in the end, so left it and went to bed.

Right then, first impressions.....

One of my main gripes with Vista *appears* to have gone, and that was the long delay after opening an instance firefox/IE before it actually opened - that appears fixed at last. That one has been present since the beta versions for me, so, that is a nice change.

So far, everything else seems much faster too, I'll report back later with more.

[godsdog]

Originally Posted by Clunk

One of my main gripes with Vista *appears* to have gone, and that was the long delay after opening an instance firefox/IE before it actually opened - that appears fixed at last. That one has been present since the beta versions for me, so, that is a nice change.

So far, everything else seems much faster too, I'll report back later with more.

Baring in mind that there is NO code tweaking taking place

[Clunk]

Something is different for sure. That much is noticable from the browser opening thing.

[godsdog]

Like I said before, after you've installed the final version, you should have a decent runner that you will recognise as the product you thought you initially paid for, they can't hack the bad press for long and people will just stick with XP and that's not what they want at all.