Non-security update rolls out Tuesday

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Усадьба — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:28:23 GMT

Wow ^)

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ayembee — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:54:13 GMT

Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, like others here, KB935509 is continually failing to install... Something to do with having a dual-boot machine? :\

Will hunt in the suggested forums. This is definitely a major pain if SP1 is dependent on this.

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c.b.mullen — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:33:23 GMT

I have posted this question to Microsoft's newsgroups but all I get is comments stating that my idea is stupid and of no use. However, I think it would help many people overcome restore problems. Many people delete all prior restore points for the purpose of increasing disk space. This eliminates all restore points until a manual one is made or one is made automatically. With no restore points the only way to sometimes successfully correct problems is to do a reinstall. Why not give people the option of selecting a specific restore point and then deleting all restore points prior to that one instead of deleting all of them? They could then save the latest four, five, six, etc, etc restore points in the event of an emergency recovery. If you think this ideal is stupid please let me know and I won't bring the subject up again. Thank you for your time.

C.B. Mullen

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Nick White — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:37:27 GMT

Hey Tony Presley: your best bet is to discuss this issue in the Windows Vista public newsgroups to see if it's been identified and whether there's a work-around: http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=204&SiteID=17.

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Tony Presley — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:44:06 GMT

With the last Vista update, my Windows Mail contacts started having problems. I can no longer edit any of the contacts. If I click on a contact name, a box flashes up for a fraction of a second and then nothing.

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Nick White — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:44:57 GMT

Hey ulric: you might find support for this issue via a TechNet forum, if it has already been identified: http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=204&SiteID=17. If not, feel free to make mention of it there, as I know our product team regularly culls those threads for feedback. I'll also make sure it is seen and considered by our Dev team per your comment here -- thanks.

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ulric — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:29:06 GMT

Hey, is there an official place to report Vista bugs?

Vista's Explorer doesn't .cur files correctly in its thumbnail display, even the ones shipped with Vista. For example, in C:\Windows\Cursors look at "cross_r.cur" or "arrow_i.cur", it's rendering a random stock Vista cursor image instead. Property page preview is also wrong, although the mask loads fine. Load them in Visual Studio to see what the image is suposed to be.

It's very bizzare.. something a developer only would notice. It's killing me since I work in UI and the display is wrong for all of our cursor.

Anyways, I've love to log the bug through "Connect" but Vista is not there.

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Dinesh123 — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:05:46 GMT

Sorry if this is not the place but I am so frustrated with this OS that I got to a point that I have to complain with someone that actually worked on it. Nothing works. And when it does it is very slow.

But the funny thing is that you write: "we’re first and foremost focused on delivering a high-quality release, so we'll determine the exact release date of SP1 after we have reached that quality bar.". Nick, let me tell you a secret. ANYTHING you release at this point will be better than what you have.

I wonder how billg is handling that? I would be cutting heads like crazy.

My next computer will be a Mac... There is no way I will upgrade from XP to Vista. By the way, love XP with SP2 and Office 2007. Maybe you should put the people from Office to work fixing Vista.

Take care.

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Maestro — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:30:44 GMT

Thanks Nick. Appreciate the link. Will Post comments there.

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Nick White — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:33:58 GMT

Hey nicho: we're unable to provide tech support via this blog, but I've relayed your situation to the Windows Update team. I'd suggest visiting one of our public newsgroups for assistance.

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nicho — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:16:35 GMT

Hi: none of the 5 updates released on Jan 8th are installing. My thinkpad T61p on Vista32 business reboots constantly, tries to update then shuts down, then restarts and shows failed updates. Every day it tries again and this is driving me nuts. All updates have installed without any problem to date, so I think this block of updates have a bug in the install process. Am I the only one impacted by the problem?

Thanks

Nick

Prepare Yourself for Vista SP1. Install its Necessary Prerequisites.

Realtime Community | Windows Server — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:58:46 GMT

One of the three prerequisites for the Vista SP1 upgrade is available now. According to the Vista team blog, KB935509, the first of these, "modifies the boot loader to enable successful install or uninstall of the service pack if the PC uses BitLocker

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Nick White — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:53:50 GMT

Hey wdhall: sorry to hear that your installation didn't go well. While I cannot help toubleshoot, I have relayed your situation to our Windows Update team for investigation -- thanks for taking the time to share the circumstances.

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Jarskin — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:35:33 GMT

KB935509 failed to install several times.

I have two harddisks. Disk A I have Vista, Suse 6.3 Linux and Grub-bootloader. This is my normal boot-disk and startup configuration. I have drive B where is XP and Vista own bootloader for XP-Vista (Vista is still on disk A) selection. Today I boot from drive B and KB935509 installed without problems.

I select drive A again to my boot-disk and Vista started well. Good, but I wonder what happens to SP1-installation when available. Maybe KB935509 makes something to bootloader and that modification is now on wrong disk.

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wdhall — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:57:23 GMT

Re: my just-finished rant.

Oops, I just noticed your remark that this blog don't do tech support. My apologies for the error, I'll dash over there to get things done.