Community Newsletter: Q&A: Should I download Windows Vista SP1 patch?
- 9/25/08 1:01 PM
Vista!!!!! YUK!!!!!!!!!!!!! CRAP!!!!!!!!!! Gates garbage
by jdp06 - 8/23/08 1:33 PM In reply to: Vista Haters by dan2600Best place for Vista is in the garbage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Vista experience
by FHankfreeman - 9/15/08 5:53 PM In reply to: Vista!!!!! YUK!!!!!!!!!!!!! CRAP!!!!!!!!!! Gates garbage by jdp061. What is you Vista experience?
2. What system as in Make Model did you load Vista?
2a. Did you get all the driver for your system?
3. How much HD running at what speed?
4. How much Memory is Vista sysem?
5. Did you do an upgrade or a Fresh Install?
6. What virus proection software did you use.
7. What went wrong that made you decide to not use Vista?
8. Did you perform a reload of the OS before you installed sp1?
9. Did you perform the subsequent updates post sp1?
I would really appreciate straight answers, NO CACA del Toro.
FHankFreeman.
VIsta SP1 works!
by LKLJ0920000 - 8/23/08 9:02 PM In reply to: Vista Haters by dan2600I agree with the above comment...Vista SP1 is how Vista should have been released. No more program version issues, nearly all programs you had before work great. Speed increased. Lots of optional security you can add or remove! Definitely go with VIsta SP1. Poor Microsoft; all that bad press for Vista could have been avoided if only they had done all the prep this version corrects.
VIsta SP1 works!
by jdp06 - 8/23/08 9:11 PM In reply to: VIsta SP1 works! by LKLJ0920000That's crap, CRASHED my work computer and I refused to download it again! EVER!!!!!!!!!
No Program Issues . . . Except
by papakeithjenkins - 8/24/08 12:12 PM In reply to: VIsta SP1 works! by LKLJ0920000One of my customers bought a new computer that came with Vista Business SP1 out of the box and it would not play with his Quickbooks Accountant Edition without him buying QuickBooks Premier Accountant
Edition 2008 which - with a three seat license - costs just over a THOUSAND DOLLARS.
It would have been cheaper and more productive long term to have me UPGRADE his computer to Windows XP Pro SP3.
Sadly the VistaPhiles have been sold a bill and believe it as though it were Gospel because it was passed down from Mount MicroSoft as truth and the Truth is that we should all wait to see if Windows 7 is going to be even MORE like a Mac or more like XP . . . the True Deliverer of Operating Systems. :-D
Vista = XP down grade!
by marpincan - 8/25/08 7:22 AM In reply to: Vista Haters by dan2600MS spent something like 5 years developing Vista. They put a pile of money into it and supposedly all these smart and high paid developers and yet the end result is a screw up that requires service pack 1 to maybe go part way to fixing it. IMO - What you have here is an over sized inefficient behemoth who's skills are more along the lines of destroying and minimizing any competition by any means possible than they are around technology and software development!
Think about it! 5 years and billions to develop what amounts to an XP downgrade! - IMO
so true
by puma - 9/15/08 7:54 PM In reply to: Vista = XP down grade! by marpincancan't disagree with that... makes me wonder why microsoft refuses to trash the kernel and make windows a Unix based OS
Response SO TRUE BY PUMA from GEO Thanks for your HELP
by GEO2003 - 9/15/08 8:18 PM In reply to: so true by pumaYou didn't reply to my previous msg.
Microsoft has told everyone that 7 will be based on the Vista Kernel.
Where are you getting this information that MS is dumping their kernel for Linux OS.,
I would really appreciate you teaching me more about everything you know.
Can you please point me to where the news of changing the Kernel to open source is.
Thanks I appreciate it your help.
fortunate few
by puma - 9/14/08 8:14 AM In reply to: Vista Haters by dan2600yeah but your vista corporate image has been stripped just so it meets corporate basic needs. a full install a vista and/or sp1 would have been disastrous if all bells & whistles are included. for business needs, Win2K and XP outperform Vista
Unable to download SP1
by lar2lin - 8/22/08 7:06 PM In reply to: Should I download Windows Vista SP1 patch? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have set my Toshiba laptop to automatically download updates, but since May, SP1 has not been able to be downloaded.
HP Vista SP!
by Tech Boy Stevo - 8/22/08 7:27 PM In reply to: Should I download Windows Vista SP1 patch? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I also have an HP Pavillion - and my install of Vista SP1 was seamless. Like many who had early versions of Vista, I tried to go back to XP. Nothing was compatible with Vista, and it was a nightmare. Vista SP1 has been a God-send, that now blows away XP. Compatibility with older software is now off the charts. Got DOS driven games and software? SP1 handles them with like XP could only dream about. I can also successfully software from 12 years ago now. I did fail with a game from 1993, but that was a real reach.
You won't see any new bells or whistles, but compatibility with the software you already own is off the charts.
I STRONGLY recommend the upgrade to Vista SP1. This upgrade is so good - I see no need for a Service Pack 2 down the road. It is perfect!
Of course you should, but be prepared...
by Doh_1 - 8/22/08 7:46 PM In reply to: Should I download Windows Vista SP1 patch? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Any time you install anything, things can happen. That's why you should have everything that you care about backed up, and a restore point ready when you install something that you think might put your computer and data in jeopardy. Generally, however, unless you have turned off restore points, and/or don't back up the data that you care about you'll be fine if something happens. However, you may want to explicitly make a restore point, which is easy to do via the "Help and Support" facility.
I have a Vista laptop that I installed SP1 on, and it is great, very solid. And a desktop that came with SP1 already installed, and it is also really good and stable. So the end result is going to be better than where you are now, chances are really good of that. And you'll be in sync with forthcoming enhancements and updates. The result of not installing a service pack can be that you cannot install subsequent updates, since they are made to install on top of the service pack. Which leads to your system slowly becoming less and less stable as you become open to the many attacks that hackers are always working on (for some reason).
So you really do need to install the service packs...I usually give them a few days to wring out problems that may come up in the field, but then install them, and have never had to remove one or had a bad experience with one.
But, as I said initially, be and feel prepared before you do it, and everything will be fine. The path forward is going to be much better, and you have a path back for a while if you find that you need it. Which seems very unlikely, from my personal experience and that of friends as well.
Enjoy.
-Roger
No you shouldn't...
by _Aquarelle_ - 8/22/08 7:50 PM In reply to: Should I download Windows Vista SP1 patch? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Did you know that it FORBIDDEN to install or purchase a computer with VISTA for use by the D.O.D. and the D.O.T. ??? Sort of says it all doesn't it...
Several corporations are removing anything 'microsoft' from their computers and are now using one verson or another of Linux with Ubuntu being the favoured one.
Download it, burn the *.iso image on a CD so that you can try it out WITHOUT having to install it!!! And don't forget, it's FREE of charge, forever, as are the updates. There are no patches, no service packs, no DRM and above all, it's an OS that is truly user friendly and that WORKS !
Please stay on topic
by jabberwockgee - 8/22/08 10:10 PM In reply to: No you shouldn't... by _Aquarelle_Thank you.
That answer IS on topic...
by _Aquarelle_ - 8/24/08 6:42 PM In reply to: Please stay on topic by jabberwockgee... but I guess that the point escapes you.
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