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| Vista Home Premium 32bit | Vista Service Packs? How do you feel about Vista Service Packs? |
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| vista ultamate 64bit | Re: Vista Service Packs? service packs are good but only if they don't fix something that wasn't broken |
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| Windows Vista x64 Ultimate | Re: Vista Service Packs? Service Packs for any operating system are good for saving internet bandwidth by accumulating all previous updates into a single package. |
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| MS Windows Vista Business Service Pack 1 x64 | Re: Vista Service Packs? Service Pack is really great. Now, when I copy some file against hard disk, transfer is about 100-130 mb/s. Before this speed was about 10-20 mb/s... Second important thing is that Vista with SP1 is really stable. For example I am using gadu-gadu communicator. Without SP in system this program destabilized explorer.exe process and I had to restart it. Now is everything OK. |
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| Vista Business 32bit | Re: Vista Service Packs? I am glad you asked! My computer was running fine with Vista Business without SP1. I waited until Windows Update presented it for download and I installed it. The computer became unstable and would not shut down. A series of hard shut downs of course presented problems with corrupt files. I would boot to safe mode and set up a check disk. Sometimes even safe mode would not load. I first chatted with Windows tech online. He took over the computer but could not resolve the problem. A call to Microsoft tech produced at least 3 sessions lasting about 2 hours each with callbacks on their part over 3 days. They were courteous, and wanted to help, and very thorough. I also spent many, many hours searching online for solutions. Finally, the recommendation was to reformat from the partition. I did that and did not install the "crapware". I installed all windows and Lenovo updates and no other programs. When SP1 presented itself via Windows Update, I installed it.... I then tried to install Microsoft office 2007. The computer would not read the disk. I successfully installed it on my old XP machine to be sure it wasn't the CD. The computer behaved as it did the first time I installed SP1, so this time I called Lenovo tech and was told to start again from the partition and not install SP1. I have done that, and it works fine. After MANY hours of trying, I have a mainstream computer that will not run the most widespread OS in the world. If I were a novice I would have thrown it out the window days ago. ....well, you asked... Lenovo Thinkpad R61 T8300 duo processor 2 gb ram Hitachi 100 gb, 7200 rpm hard drive 4gb readyboost Windows Vista Business SP 1 not installed |
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