[access-uk] Re: Vista SP1
- From: "Tristram Llewellyn" <tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:38:01 -0000
VISTA SP1 is fine as far as I can tell, you won't really notice any UI
changes just that one or two areas seem more snappy and the whole thing
less error prone. If it is coming up under the Windows Update then your
PC should take it fine. As for downloading on dial-up; I don't think
so, the ISP would cut you off well before you finnished. Even so it
would be less than 400MB through the Windows Update mechanism anyway. I
do not Microsoft think will be doing those free CDs again although I
could be proved wrong. In the four or five years since then broadband
takeup has been large enough to obviate the need for anything similar.
However the update is available as a stand alone update. If you have a
friend who wouldn't mind downloading it and burning to CD for you, then
you could install the service pack from CD.
The SP1 is not as urgent an update in the security sense as it was for
XP service pack 2 anyway so you can rest somewhat more easily, it is
however worth having though.
Regards.
Tristram Llewellyn
tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Technical Support
Sight and Sound Technology
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Douglas Harrison
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 2:16 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Vista SP1
For the last ten days or so my laptop has been telling me that Vista SP1
is
available for download and is classed as an Important Update. As I
understand it, the Updater will have checked that my hardware etc. is
compatible with the SP1 before it was offered.
However I am wondering how important it really is? I am still on a dial
up
connection and an update of over 400 mb could take around 18 hours to
download! As I hope to switch to broadband in the not too distant
future, I
wonder whether the SP1 could be left in abeyance at present.
I remember that Microsoft provided XP SP2 free of charge on CD, but I
can
find no indication of Vista SP1 being available in that way.
Comments, particularly from anyone who has already taken the plunge,
would be much appreciated.
Douglas
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