This is how SP1 went. Good. Let's have your feedback.

[gzt7d8]

Install went fine......I can't I have noticed any difference..Vista seems exactly the same to me. No worse or better.

My installation went off without any problems for my desktop and laptop. But, I would have to agree with damocles, I saw no difference. I was hoping for some performance lift, but haven't seen anything yet.

 

[johnwillyums]

Hello again.
I tried your suggestions. Initially I disabled all startup programs and services in MSCONFIG and tried to install the standalone folder from my desktop.
This failed with the same error message as before.
I then uninstalled the NVidia drivers through the control panel and ran driver cleaner.
I rebooted and ran SP1 again and again it failed but I got a "this is not a genuine copy of Windows" message in the bottom right of the screen. It is a genuine OEM and I have the disk,
After that I thought I'd try safe mode-same again.
I've now reinstalled the card drivers and am back to where I was.
On the positive side the "not genuine" message is gone but I am no nearer to getting the service pack installed.

Any further suggestions would be most welcome and thanks for your continuing support, John

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hi all,
I posted this earlier in the week.

SP1 & Restore Points

Now I see that I am not the only one SP1 did this to.

william gunkel wrote... HERE
No problem just do a system restore, ah the SP1 had wiped out all but 2 of my restore points.​

Last night (Sat.), my weekly clean/tune, I shut everything out.
I created a Restore Point then opened AusLogics Registry Defrag.
(run as Admin in Admin acct.) Reg. Defrag did its thing as always,
created its own Restore Point, Restart then I closed it. I then
went to Create a Restore Point "after" as I always do. You guessed it! The only Restore Point I had was SP1 !!! Any ideas ???
Also I did load SP1 @ WU.

I got the idea from this thread...
I haven't done it yet.

Make vista sp1 permanent and save disk space

Do any of you have any ideas ???

I am also going to post this at my original thread, so please post replys HERE

Thank you all for any and all help !!!

Later Ted

 

[PaulGo]

Although I purchase Vista 64 bit almost a year ago, I waited for SP1 before I installed it with almost no problems. The only problem I had was Windows update not working because the history file got corrupted. I was able to fix it. Also by waiting the availability of drivers and software that can run on 64 bit Vista has greatly increased to the point that I was able to update all my software to Vista compatible versions.

 

[brummyfan]

Thank you dmex, I have tried to install SP1 using WU but it failed at the installation stage2, then tried using standalone download after disabling my antivirus program as you have replied to another post. Now everything is faster than before but the update wiped all previous restore points( it doesn't bother me) and I am quite happy with the way the system works, Thanks again.

 

[ervit]

For me, SP1 installed without problems. The PC seems to be faster now... BUT.... now I have a problem with Switch Users function. Whenever I switch users, or log off and log on another user, this second user account does not work. A few other people are having the same issue. Details here: http://www.vistax64.com/windows-updates/140081-vista-sp1-breaks-switching-users-ability.html

It always happens to the user account being logged on second, so it's not user account-specific.

 

[rilopes]

Running Ultimate here and updated from standalone SP1 pack without disabling any process or service ( including AV ). I'm only user - administrator.
Asus P5B-DeLuxe - E6420 - Corsair PC-8500 @ 1066 Mhz ( dual )

Vista Partition: 25 GB. Total RAM: 2 GB

1) 45 minute complete install process - no issues !

2) System runs slightely better: faster reactions and programs open faster too.

3) Free HD before: 11,2 GB
after : 8,1 GB ( Too much, isn't it ?!? )

4) Free RAM before: 1,1 GB
after: 1,3 GB

5) No substantial processor utilization changes

6) Only problem: Windows Media Player won't run: says wmploc.dll wrong version ( 6344 instead of 7000 ). No solution yet. Somebody help ?

 

[dbl]

My sp1 installation went like yours did but it seems to have turned off some of my manual services, including my print spooler! I turn it on, but the next time I boot it is off again! Any ideas?

 

[grimreaper]

installed SP1 a few weeks ago...not 1 single problem...much quicker now, transfer large files and start/shutdown times are faster.

 

[garysgold]

SP1 installed without any problems via WU. Noticed that security center no longer loads at bootup. RAM usage went down 4-5%. Seems more stable, maybe a bit faster. File transfers are considerably faster.

Gary

 

[Rob Redbeard]

Everything went easily. My only complaint was that they were very slow to get the service packs out for other languages or at least get the Ultimate language packs ready for SP1. This doesn't make any sense to me, since the people that translate those string tables have nothing to do with programming the software. I can't find a reason why most of that couldn't get done while SP1 was in development. Since 99% of the text in SP1 Vista is the same as retail, I'm even more at a loss.

Why do I care? Because my PC is the US English version with Chinese (PRC) Ultimate extras language pack installed. Before I could install SP1, I had to uninstall the Chinese (PRC) language pack, and we are now waiting for that to be available for SP1 (maybe this month?).

Rob

 

[johnwillyums]

Hi.
Sorry Rob, can't help with your problem but have one of my own.
My SP1 update went quite smoothly following a complete reinstall of the OS and sitting for hours whilst the last years worth of updates installed and finally SP1.
Can't say I've noticed much difference apart from one disasterous one.
Prior to the OS reinstall I backed up everything to an external HDD/media player. That was all my photographic work, movies, music, docs etc
Now when I connect it up by USB Vista cannot see it and I get a "installing USB to IDE drivers" message, that fails followed by a search option that also fails followed by a suggestion I contact the manufacturer.
I contacted Envizage who replied that no drivers were required for Vista but I could try uninstalling SP1. Naturally I'm reluctant to do that.
I suspect that Envizage are importers and vendors and really don't know or care.
If I recall the enclosure contains a 400GB Samsung but I wasn't even aware that it was an IDE drive. Can't check now obviously.

I'm running Vista HP 64x and as I say the drive worked fine before SP1.
Can anyone help? This is a personal disaster for me.

Thanks, John

 

[roy69]

The installation was fast and simple on my system. I have found that my cpu usage has gone down slightly. Nothing else much has changed.

 

[markpbennett]

Hi,
I had SP1 installed around christmas...copy taken from mininova.

no problems....vista attempted to install some additiona updates on the weekend(jsut gone)....making my machine un-bootable(( and as i didnt have a repair image...lost all my data.

I've reinstalled and allowed vista to add all updated...for the same to happen.

There are seven updated in the last week(i think)...so im either gonna have to go through one by one till i find the one causing problems...or more likely deactivate updates all together.

thanks microsoft...and these mugs are taking about their next release already(

 

[AvatarOfTheShip]

Well, here my two-cents worth; I got SP1 early - about a month early, I think - because I have a friend who works for the Redmond Cthulhu-worshippers and whipped a copy still hot and steaming from their servers (I don't mean 'whipped' as in 'obtained inappropriately' by the way; he propitiated the correct nameless horrors). It all went very well, though with no real outstanding or obvious improvements. Then things started to go horribly wrong, up to, and not excluding, blue-screening. However, although it seemed an unlikely coincidence at the time, it was in fact my (year-old) hard drive that was causing the trouble, and that's now been RMAed. On the whole, I haven't really seen any difference whatsoever.

 

[KingOfChaos]

Well, here my two-cents worth; I got SP1 early - about a month early, I think - because I have a friend who works for the Redmond Cthulhu-worshippers and whipped a copy still hot and steaming from their servers (I don't mean 'whipped' as in 'obtained inappropriately' by the way; he propitiated the correct nameless horrors). It all went very well, though with no real outstanding or obvious improvements. Then things started to go horribly wrong, up to, and not excluding, blue-screening. However, although it seemed an unlikely coincidence at the time, it was in fact my (year-old) hard drive that was causing the trouble, and that's now been RMAed. On the whole, I haven't really seen any difference whatsoever.

....

Do you play any roleplaying games? :P

 

[AvatarOfTheShip]

Yes but the court order prevents me talking about that

 

[Ginza]

I have installed SP1 trough windows update this morning and everything seems to be fine. I will play around with it for some days and will write back if I face any issues.

 

[storsett]

downloaded the All Language Standalone Installer (Norwegian version) from MS and it installed perfectly :D ^^

 

[FritzDaKat]

So heres my before & after story of the encounter with SP1 to date.

Let's start with some basic spec's.

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Mainboard : ELITEGROUP COMPUTER SYSTEM CO.,LTD. 945G-M3
Chipset : Intel i945G/GZ
Processor : Intel Pentium D @ 3333 MHz
Physical Memory : 2048 MB (2 x 1024 DDR2-SDRAM )
Video Card : Nvidia Corp GeForce 7600 GT --- Added Vantec Iceberq3 cooler mod
Hard Disk : Hitachi (320 GB)
Hard Disk : ST3120022A (120 GB)
Hard Disk : WDC (74 GB) --- Raptor
Hard Disk : Maxtor (204 GB)
DVD-Rom Drive : SONY DVD RW AW-Q170A ATA Device
Operating System : Windows Vista (TM) Home Basic Home Edition 6.00.6001 Service Pack 1
DirectX : Version 10.00
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It's no powerhouse but it usualy get's the job done in most gaming environments (Well, NwN2 and ArmA are beasts, but,,, I digress)

Anyhow, prior to SP1, I was running with the 169.25 forceware drivers from the day they released and had no real issues, system ran smooth.

Installing SP1 was a pretty simple process for me as soon as I got the prerequesit updates in place and after which, the system performance was notably more fluid initially...

Not long after I tried playing ArmA (Armed Assault) for a while. At first I was amazed and impressed by the great steps in performance, seemed as if I was watching a movie as opposed to the usual flip-book animation feel I'd grown accustom to and all was right with the world untill the dreaded "display driver had stopped responding but recovered" jumped up and bit my head off.

So Google led me to a bunch of forums searching for an answer to the nvlddmkm.sys issue, found the DirectX beta update, installed, reinstalled my vid & sound drivers and was once more impressed by the degree of improvment, but this was short lived as the nvlddmkm monster soon returned. (Still had an old nvlddmkm file thanks to the "file suppository", then I went thru and decided to claim all nv_ folders as my own, promptly deleting them thereafter. Still not sure how wise an idea that was )

Then I tried visiting Windows update but was unable to check for updates. Luckily I recalled that one of the pre-SP1 updates was an update for redirecting Windows update, figuring it was Windows Firewall blocking me, I shut it off, and sucessfully found there were only optional updates for Windows Defender at the time


So I've done everything I can think of short of buying an ATI card to fix this nvlddmkm problem with no luck.

But on the bright-ish side, it all run's smoother and faster untill the inevitable bsod or display driver has stopped responding pops up and sends me in whats becoming a vicious cycle of ripping out the old drivers and trying other variants. (Next on the list is a 3rd-party, modded forceware driver from NGOHQ.com as I've tried everything from 162.22 to the 174.85 beta drivers from guru3d.com with no luck )

P.S. : Clock speeds on CPU / GPU are all out-of-the-box stock. Temps are "reasonable" (Below 60 C.)

Overall, as long as theres some form of hotfix from MS or Nvidia soon, I'm pleased for the increased performance despite this annoying bug.