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Have You Updated to Vista SP1?

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Microsoft released SP1 for Windows Vista this past week and the reviews seem to be mixed.  Some reviewers say SP1 improves various system performance tests, and others say it does the opposite.  I installed Vista SP1 on my main desktop PC last week, and the installation process was flawless.  As far as any "real world" performance issues, I haven't noticed anything either way.  On my system, I have had no noticeable performance gains or slowdowns as others have reported.

I haven't installed SP1 as of yet on my HP laptop, as the SP1 betas I have used kept constantly BSOD'ing my machine.  I was never able to narrow down the culprit, but I am a bit wary about installing it again on this computer.  I might fire up Windows Update tomorrow morning and give it another go, so we will see how that works out then.

Otherwise, my question to the community is have you, Vista users, updated to SP1 yet?

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Reply #51 from Sins Forums Top
is vista worth getting now?
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Not really.

I have upgraded my home system to Vista SP1, but not my work system as Vista SP1 breaks some of the things that I use regularly for work.
Reply #52 from WinCustomize Forums Top
there was no Operating System. Fried the harddrive
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This happened to me. It worked for about 2 weeks then I restarted my machine and I got "Error no Operating System installed". I tried to reinstall Vista and I kept getting installation errors. I bought a new harddrive and Vista installed without a problem. This is an HP with Intel chipset.
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Reply #53 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I've had Vista on my laptop for about a year, no real hassles. Updated to SP1 fairly sharpish after its release, updated fine, no subsequent hassles.

If its part of a small office network environment of whatever size, I'd hold off for a while until more is known about Windows7. If its a medium to large network environment, dont touch, it stay XP, upgrade costs are too high in view of the relative imminence of Windows7.

If its a home setup, go for it - you might get some driver hassles for peripherals, but the noise on that has largely died down, as it usually does, as OEMs get their drivers redone and sent out. If you are the seriously paranoid type, better test for compatibility on peripherals, otherwise just go for it with a home setup.

The vast majority of the noise on Vista is related to implications for Company Networks or Drivers. The former cant be compared to Home setups - different issues, different things driving the deductions that are far outside what Home users need to think about - to try and draw an experience from one environment and yelling about iit in the other, is insane, its like comparing chalk and cheese. The Driver issues always happens on major OS Version upgrades - and frankly there's squat MS can do about it in any meaningful way at a Macro Level, other than give the usual 2-3 year warning of need to OEMs - which they did.

As with Win3, Win Workgroups, Win 95, Win 98, Win ME, Win 2000, Win XP - by this time next year, the glib comment will be "dont know what the fuss was about, its fine"  :LOL:  It always happens at Version change time - what goes around comes around ..... life goes on frankly.

Regards
Zy
Reply #54 from Stardock Forums Top
Of course. I am not the paranoid type that is afraid all new patches. I welcome ALL patches! :P

Birger :)