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1. phair

   
   Posted on: April 18, 2008 at 7:59AM  

   Hi, where are the SP1 language packs?

   I installed Ultimate x64 SP1 integrated and Windows Update is not offering Portuguese Brazilian language pack.

   When will be available? Isn't to be this month with the release of SP1 wave-1?
2. belto

   
   Posted on: April 18, 2008 at 8:05AM  

   now that i standaloned this new sp1 with all language pack i cannot see any languages installed. what the bloody heck is going on??
3. rkpatrick

   
   Posted on: April 18, 2008 at 6:39PM  

   Frankly, after spending 2 hours installing SP1 only to spend another 1 hour waiting for it to rollback after failure, I am EXTREMELY tentative about risking spending that much time with the machine unavailable only to have it roll back again. Right now, I can't justify the risk without some kind of SP1 post indicating that the failure issues have been tracked down and addressed. I know that may sound unreasonable to folks that have had better luck with the thing, but for me, it's the equivalent of driving across the state for 2 hours and then realizing I left the stove on and have to drive back...all because I didn't think to check the stove before I left.
4. Bob-C

   
   Posted on: April 18, 2008 at 11:51PM  

   Guys,

   What happened to recdisc.exe?  I used it on pre-release versions and it worked pretty well.  Now I have the final SP1 loaded and the shortcut has been removed from the maintenance menu.  The program is still there in C:\windows\system32\recdisc.exe but if you double click on it, nothing happens.

   I see a lot of questions posted about this on other forums but no answers.  The silence has been surprisingly deafening.  I don't think we are talking national security type question  here, so what is the deal guys?  

   Thx,

   Bob
5. phair

   
   Posted on: April 19, 2008 at 7:17AM  

   OMG where are sp1 x64 pt-br language pack plz
6. ywwong

   
   Posted on: April 19, 2008 at 8:46AM  

   I just bought Vista Home Premium to Ultimate upgrade from MSFT.  It came with SP1 integrated.  My only reason to upgrade to Ultimate is to get language packs.  Needless to say, language packs are nowhere to be found after I upgrade to Ultimate SP1.

   Is there any timeframe for the release of Vista language packs?  I need them urgently because this computer will be used by somebody who doesn't know English, and Vista without language packs is basically useless.
7. ywwong

   
   Posted on: April 19, 2008 at 8:59AM  

   Honestly, I wonder why SP1 was released (and forcefully integrated into the retail version of Vista Ultimate) before all language packs are ready.  I'm not asking for bells and whistles like DreamScene and extra games here.  I don't even care about the other Ultimate Extras.  I invested hundreds of dollars in my new PC only to find that it doesn't display the language that I want, which is the reason I bought the PC in the first place.  Does your team really care about users who don't speak English?
8. Zod

   
   Posted on: April 19, 2008 at 1:48PM  

   I wanted to take advance of this to say a thing I noticed about my system. It's great,as I said but there is a thing which actually annoys me. The windows maximise/minimize animation is very nice but after a while it gets boring cause windows seem to open slow. When i toggle off that option from the effects options,i get what i want,fast windows ect...but wheter i close a IE window or open up some other simple explorer windows it displays artifacts for a second,while with animations it does not. With xp this didn't happen,the windows opened immediately. I thought that with sp1 this was solved but explorer navigation in my opinion still has a few problems (just as it regards performance of course). Keep it in mind Microsoft staff. My hardware setting is as followed:

   Amd Athlon 64 X2 4200+

   3 GB RAM

   Ati HD 3850

   Everything updated ect..

   Thank You

   I have to say the overall performance has definitely increased with this service pack! Keep up the good work
9. jaxim

   
   Posted on: April 20, 2008 at 9:26AM  

   @Brandon LeBlanc

   Thanks for the page link, but like I said, it would be nice if you could run a tool that tells you the specific reason why SP1 isn't showing up instead of reading of a list of the possible reasons why and trying to figure out which one applies to you.
10. ulrik04

    
    Posted on: April 21, 2008 at 6:50PM  

    I was hoping to see speech recognition available on non-english installations :( is this coming any time? (just a english version on a non-english system)

    I want speech recognition :(

    anyway thx for SP1 ^_^ and the great movie MS made about it xP