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Microsoft releases Vista Service Pack 1

Postby Antony » Wed 19 Mar, 2008 1:51 am

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Microsoft has finally released the first Service Pack for Windows Vista. Vista SP1 contains previously released updates and changes focused on addressing specific reliability, performance, and compatibility issues; supporting new types of hardware; and adding support for several emerging standards.

Download link:
:dl: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (434.5MB, available in English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish)

For more information, please visit Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (Microsoft.com)

If you have Windows Vista, and have applied this SP1, please let us know your experience with SP1.
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Re: Microsoft releases Vista Service Pack 1

Postby beanboy89 » Wed 19 Mar, 2008 9:48 am

Antony wrote:Download link:
:dl: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (434.5MB, available in English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish)

It's worth noting that the link you gave, Antony, is only for x86. SP1 for Vista x64 is available here.
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Postby Mandrake » Wed 19 Mar, 2008 12:54 pm

I ran with SP1 since I installed Vista about a month ago. I've had zero troubles or performance issues with Vista, which makes for a VERY nice change from last year.
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Postby iJohnE » Wed 19 Mar, 2008 2:50 pm

Installed it this morning before I went to school.
I must say I have noticed an imporvement.

My User Index even went up:
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I suppose Microsoft likes it when people use their service packs?!
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Postby richard mitnick » Sat 22 Mar, 2008 8:02 pm

Hey Antony-

Thanks for the link. I had a driver problem vis SP1, so I did not see it in Windows Update. I did find a list of mostly audio drivers that are problematic.

But this does not mean that one can not do the install from the file at the link you gave. That is what I did, several others had also recommended it, including MVP's at the Vista Community site, and a MSFT Tech with whom I did a freebie online chat.

There is definitely some advice to do the install in Safe Mode. Apparently A/V does not play nice yet with Vista.

But, all in all, pretty simple.

I cannot speak to speed improvements, because my two 2.5 gig CPU Core 2 Duo Vista Machines with 633 FSB and 2 gigs of DRAM replaced old PIII's, with 1 gig CPU's and 512 mb DRAM. So, you know, to me, it's like flying, like going from serial to USB. Egadc, my machines are already obsolete. FSB's are up to 1033 or more, and CPU's are now pretty standard at quads.

I hope you are ready for Autumn, we hardly had a Winter and Spring is about to burst upon us.

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Vista service Pack 1

Postby vista os x freak » Tue 22 Apr, 2008 11:24 am

I love the new and improved vista. right now I have a mac interface with vista and thanks to sp1 made that possible
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Vista Service Pack 1

Postby MagicFalcon007 » Mon 13 Apr, 2009 1:43 pm

I just recently bought a new laptop with Windows Vista SP1 and so far I love it. I haven't had any problems with it. When I installed Vista on my old laptop, I had nothing but problems. It would boot up, but after the Vista logo appeared, the screen would go black and the log-in screen would never appear. I think it had something to do with graphics card that was installed. Also my old laptop had only 512 MB RAM so Vista ran very slowly. Word of warning: Never install Vista on a computer with 512 MB RAM.
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Postby Mandrake » Mon 26 Oct, 2009 5:14 pm

I think we can lose the sticky on this too. Vista SP2 was released yonks ago.
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