Deployed: Windows Vista SP1 RC on ALL of my PC’s

re: Deployed: Windows Vista SP1 RC on ALL of my PC’s

Mangal — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:13:57 GMT

I am facing log in problem with gtalk, i can login sometimes successfully, however, most of times, it gives following error:

Could not connect to the google talk service (error 10053)

I have disable firewall and checked but the same problem persist.

I work on Window XP as well but never encountered with this problem. My friend has also encountered the same problem. We brought laptop with Vista operating system now do not know how to switch back XP, otherwise would have done the same.

Secondly, sometimes Internet explorer and Mozila firefox automatically stop working and get closed giving error message.

Regards

Mangal

re: Deployed: Windows Vista SP1 RC on ALL of my PC’s

Spencer — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:22:05 GMT

I installed it on my laptop last night. So far no issues.

re: Deployed: Windows Vista SP1 RC on ALL of my PC’s

adrian — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:07:02 GMT

Got my RC1 through updates yesterday. Haven't tested the full 1Gb file transfer experience yet (haven't installed it on the Family PC yet.). There weren't lags in file copy, move nor delete than before. And seems to me that I gained back 100MB of RAM from the currently running processes in Vista. Download time for Wifi was around 30min, and installation was roughly the same. Also since I didn't try the Beta, do note that we have to install 3 updates to our systems before we actually see the Vista SP1 RC item in the updates list.

Specs:

Pentium D 805 @ 3.00Ghz

2x 1GB Corsair Value RAM DDRII 533

Asus P5LD2 (not the SE edition) motherboard

160GB Seagate

MSI 8600GTS OC Edition

D-Link 802.11G Wifi Adapter

re: Deployed: Windows Vista SP1 RC on ALL of my PC’s

Jaime — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 11:01:56 GMT

You were absolutely right Brandon. The filter I applied to show the content in the download area, only let me see the file to update using the Windows Update Experience!

Thanks. I will report results.

re: Deployed: Windows Vista SP1 RC on ALL of my PC’s

Brandon LeBlanc — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:55:20 GMT

Reckon, then if you're a TechNet subscriber the standalone installer should be listed under subscriber downloads where the info/reg file for installing SP1 was listed.

GridGI, that's great to hear!

- Brandon

re: Deployed: Windows Vista SP1 RC on ALL of my PC’s

GridGI — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:50:12 GMT

I like the SP1 already. I did a file transfer test this morning and the difference is huge.

http://www.profile6.com/vista.html

Artur

re: Deployed: Windows Vista SP1 RC on ALL of my PC’s

Jaime — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:46:17 GMT

#Brandon LeBlanc: I'm already a Technet Suscriber (this is my second year) and at the technet site is where I got the info and the reg file to install SP1.

re: Deployed: Windows Vista SP1 RC on ALL of my PC’s

Brandon LeBlanc — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:24:00 GMT

Reckon, if you are *not* a Microsoft Connect beta tester for Windows Vista SP1 or a MSDN/TechNet Subscriber, the new RC bits for SP1 have not been released just yet. So the standalone installer it not yet available. As Nick said in his post - public availability will occur next week sometime.

laubin, I can't really say what went wrong with your installation or uninstall. You have to understand - previously the SP1 bits were available only as a beta and betas are not for just anyone to install. Betas will have bugs and issues and there are always dangers to installing betas.

With the release of the RC for SP1 - SP1 has gotten quite a bit better because of all the feedback Microsoft has taken in but is not final release nor should be treated.

My overall system speed and performance remains very good after installing the SP1 RC on all 5 of my PCs currently.

caywen, I forwarded your experience on to the necessary folks. Thanks for leaving your feedback!

- Brandon

re: Deployed: Windows Vista SP1 RC on ALL of my PC’s

laubin — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:00:31 GMT

Brandon,

When I installed a couple of weeks ago (I forgot which version) my system became unbearably slow. I had to uninstalled it but not everything was uninstalled. I finally did a complete reinstall of Vista.

Do you think that it could have been a bad install or something?

Did your over-all system speed and performance get better?

Thanks for any info..

Larry

re: Deployed: Windows Vista SP1 RC on ALL of my PC’s

Jaime — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:22:54 GMT

I've met the prerequisites stated in the doc provided and I can't download the SP1 using Windows Update. Bad experience. Stops at 12% when downloading. Any link to get the full standalone SP1 file?

re: Deployed: Windows Vista SP1 RC on ALL of my PC’s

mareeds — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:05:01 GMT

Gee, I forgot about how long it takes to deal with language packs.

re: Deployed: Windows Vista SP1 RC on ALL of my PC’s

caywen — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:17:50 GMT

I have been running the SP1 RC since this morning and noticed that on my HP DV9000, it reverted a lot of my updated drivers that I downloaded from HP. After installing, I would recheck your vendor for driver updates and reinstall them. My Conexant High Definition Audio was broken after installing SP1 RC, but reinstalling the latest drivers (re) fixed the problem.

So far, I’ve noticed SP1 RC chew up an extra 1GB of disk space *after* all files have been cleaned up - this is also after deleting all restore points. So, you’ll have to determine for yourself if the loss of space is worth it. Given that no features were added, I’m curious why I lose a gig.

Feast Your Eyes on the Official Release Notes for Windows Vista SP1 RC

Knowledge Base — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:55:36 GMT

I thought that I would point you to the official release notes for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release

re: Deployed: Windows Vista SP1 RC on ALL of my PC’s

jrpatterson — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:55:55 GMT

Greetings everyone!

The SP1 install worked great. We have tested in on numerous hardware types (all Dell Precision, Optiplex and Latitude systems) without any problems. Some of the programs we have tested are:

SolidWorks 2008

AutoCAD 2008

ProEngineer Wildfire 3

Office 2007

Acrobat Pro 8.1

ImgBurn

Photoshop 7 and CS3

Illustrator 10 and CS3

Nero 7 and 8

WinRAR

We spent three weeks hammering on the RC preview (v658) building our WDS deployments. Using the SP1 WAIK we injected drivers into our images and setup fully unattended deployments for bare hardware. We are very excited about the new deployment tools as it reduces our setup time significantly.

Our overall experience with SP1 has been very positive. The added stability and performance has allowed us to demonstrate to our users that Vista is powerful system. Not to mention the unreal network performance between Vista SP1 and Server 2008. That benefit alone is worth the upgrade.

Congratulations to everyone on the Vista Team. This release it what the RTM should have been *cough*. Thanks for finally getting us there!

re: Deployed: Windows Vista SP1 RC on ALL of my PC’s

chakkaradeep — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:50:49 GMT

Hi All,

Installed SP1 RC via WU in my primary machine which I use for development and daily activities, successfully. No failures, No errors.

Machine Specs

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Dell Inspiron 6400 E1505

1) Intel Core 2 Duo T5300 1.73 Ghz

2) 2 GB RAM

3) Windows Vista Ultimate RTM

4) nVidia GeForce Go 7600

My applications list,

Applications

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1) Windows Live Messenger, Writer, Mail

2) Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

3) Expression Blend SP1

4) Skype

5) gTalk

6) SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition

7) MS Office (Word,Powerpoint,Excel,Visio)

8) Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0

9) MagicISO

10) Ashampoo Burning Studio

All my applications work and also my Vodem (Vodafone 3g device) too works perfect after installation. My new Microsoft Notebook Wireless Presenter 8000 mouse which I bought just this week and the accompanying software too works great!

Great work Windows Vista Team! The installation took 50 minutes this time.