Vista SP1 caused my PC to freeze

AlanTTT3 · 05-21-2008

When I ran WU the service pack seemed to install smoothly. But when it rebooted it froze about 60 seconds after logon and did so for every subsequent reboot. Also on booting Windows Defender kept reporting that "mswsock.dll was being changed by a known application". Spent a whole day researching this and trying various fixes - nothing worked - finally gave up and used system restore to go back to a non Sp1 installation. PC working fine - looks like I will have to give SP1 a miss - maybe Microsoft will get it right with SP2. Mercifully this was just my home PC - we still use XP at work thank god!. If this happened on all the PCs at work it would have been a nightmare.

AlanTTT3 · 05-23-2008

Finally got PC to work with SP1. Don't know if this made a diffrence but I enabled the Administrator account and installed SP1 logged on with that account after installing SP1 went back to WU and installed several device drivers - I found I had to do them one at a time - WU update froze if I tried to do them all at once.

**johngalt** · 05-24-2008

I had issues where SP1 would not show in WU because of some drivers I had - and I later learned that my best bet was to uninstall drivers, install SP1, and then re-install drivers.

Of course, this was on older hardware - my new system didn't care that I already had drivers installed, it installed SP1 without a glitch.

05-21-2008	#1 (permalink)
AlanTTT3 Newbie Join Date: May 2008 Vista Ultimate 32 bit 2 posts Rep Power: 4	Vista SP1 caused my PC to freeze When I ran WU the service pack seemed to install smoothly. But when it rebooted it froze about 60 seconds after logon and did so for every subsequent reboot. Also on booting Windows Defender kept reporting that "mswsock.dll was being changed by a known application". Spent a whole day researching this and trying various fixes - nothing worked - finally gave up and used system restore to go back to a non Sp1 installation. PC working fine - looks like I will have to give SP1 a miss - maybe Microsoft will get it right with SP2. Mercifully this was just my home PC - we still use XP at work thank god!. If this happened on all the PCs at work it would have been a nightmare.
My System Specs

05-23-2008	#2 (permalink)
AlanTTT3 Newbie Join Date: May 2008 Vista Ultimate 32 bit 2 posts Rep Power: 4	Re: Vista SP1 caused my PC to freeze Finally got PC to work with SP1. Don't know if this made a diffrence but I enabled the Administrator account and installed SP1 logged on with that account after installing SP1 went back to WU and installed several device drivers - I found I had to do them one at a time - WU update froze if I tried to do them all at once.
My System Specs

05-24-2008	#3 (permalink)
johngalt Antidisestablishmentarian Join Date: May 2008 Vista Ultimate x64 MAK, Vista Ultimate x86 MAK, XP x86, XP x64, OpenSolaris 5, Gentoo 2008.1.... 3,307 posts 3rd Rock Rep Power: 108	Re: Vista SP1 caused my PC to freeze I had issues where SP1 would not show in WU because of some drivers I had - and I later learned that my best bet was to uninstall drivers, install SP1, and then re-install drivers. Of course, this was on older hardware - my new system didn't care that I already had drivers installed, it installed SP1 without a glitch.
My System Specs

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