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

This is how it went.

1. Had to do windows update three times before it got them all. I had just done the other day the updates for march. The first update had 8 updates in it. Update number two had one update in it. Update number three had one update in it.

2. Had to do the WGA and did pass.

3. Then the SP1 update showed up in the Window Updates and started the download. Size was about 175.mb.

4. Had to reboot after the install. During windows shut down it stop to do some more installing of the SP1 update. It has 3 stages.

A. Stage one went somewhat fast.
B. Stage two went real slow up to about 12% then went fast and stop and stalled at 100% for some time.
C. Never seen Stage three.

5. Os rebooted and during the restart of windows just before the desktop shows up it started installing Stage three and went somewhat fast. After the desktop came on they was a lot of hard drive activity.

6. The first thing that I seen is that AVG did not restart. I just started it my self and all was good.

Things I seen after install and reboot.

I now have this icon in the lower right about some Customer Experience program that want's to run but you have to say yes to turn it on.

Under the Device manager I now have an error under Built-in-Infrared Device. ( No big deal)

Under the Task manager my Processes came back up to 54 and memory is running at 50% up from what I had it dwon to, 41 processes running & Physical Memory is 33% so it looks as if it went back in and turned some things back on or added some things.

I will have to google all the processes to find what is what.

So far this is all I have seen but then have not been running the SP1 but just a few. I will post as I find more things good or bad. I figure it will take a few reboots and some system maintenance to get the boot back up to par.

My experience: Its runs faster and uses less memory and takes awhile to install if you have been using quite a few programs theres also that driver-reinstall glitch after installing SP1.

I've been running SP1 64bit RTM for over a month on my machine, and noticed that my system performs better and is more stable with the service pack in place.

System performance improved when I switched my SATA controller over to AHCI mode.

I too have been running SP1, since beta, then onto RTM. Now with the public release, everything is running smoothly.

Me2

It sux for me!

After having a stable OS for almost 7 months!! First time intalling SP1 corrupted my registry resulting in NO chance of repairing and leaving me no choice but re-installing the entire OS...

So dissapointed, I am now re-downloading updates and will install SP1 one more time...Will see how things goes..

Absolutely no installation problems here! Installed via Windows Update download.

First you get this screen:


Then agree to the usual licence:


Then Vista warns you it could take over an hour or more and you can't use your PC while you're waiting:


At this point just before clicking on "Install" I disabled or exited all background applications that were running in the System Tray, via the "Exit" or "Close" options in their icons, including my Anti Virus application. All that were left visible were the "Windows Updates" icon and the standard volume control/Networking icons. I don't whether this helps for a safer or easier SP1 installation, but it can't do any harm!


Then Windows proceeded to continue the download. First part took about 10 minutes to download just the necessary parts of SP1 I guess. Then a reboot during which the PC went through the 3 stages of the installation over about 15 minutes. Then a normal startup of Vista with about another 15 minutes of major "disk churning" before it finally settled down.

The I went into Windows update and the Welcome Center to find all is okay:



No software or hardware issues at present and system seems overall "snappier". So far, I'm impressed!

SP1 seems to do better on a fresh install...Or at least mine did.

There is one glitch, If you did not select "Microsoft Update" before installing SP1 your unable to search for updates for other Microsoft programs because the link takes you to the XP MicrosoftUpdate site, you also get the same problem before or after SP1 if you decide to leave "Microsoft update" it just takes you to the XP MicrosoftUpdate site and fails to set the correct keys.

The only workaround I have found is using OfficeLive settings to force windowsupdate to check for microsoftupdate`s

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