[access-uk] Re: installing vista SP1
- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:56:30 +0100
Hi Graham,
I have just installed Vista SP1 - and what a [multiple
expletives deleted] rotten exercise! I was going to write
something up later, but as the whole process has taken me a
number of days, I'm still trying to catch up on the backlog,
but here's a brief summary.
1) Be warned that the download is 445 Megabytes.
2) If you have installed any Vista Language Packs, be
warned that you can only have English, French, German
Spanish and Japanese. If you have installed any others, you
will have to remove them first. Each one is .61 GIGA bytes
in size, and takes between 20 and 30 minutes to remove, plus
you have to re-boot and wait while the system reconfigures
itself.
3) I have a Pentium IV 2.8GHz processor, with 1.5 GB
memory, and plenty of free disk space, yet the upgrade
process took a full two and a half hours with a number of
re-boots in between.
It's too early yet to assess whether there is any real
improvement in performance, so we'll just have to see how it
goes over the next few days.
George.
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Graham Page
Sent: 09 April 2008 09:43
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] installing vista SP1
Hi all.
I recently bought a Samsung Q45 laptop and I am in the
process of updating Vista and generally getting stuff
installed on it.
I have heard that Vista SP1 is generally an improvement but
that in early versions of SP1 at least there were problems
with some fairly major manufacturer drivers so they did not
release to general public straight away.
I have checked for updates and installed them all and gone
back to the windows update site again to check. Vista SP1
is not yet shown as an update so I have downloaded the stand
alone version. Is it likely to be OK to install this? I
have temporarily turned off the User Accounts option which
pops up whenever a program wants to run otherwise and will
turn this back on once I have a reasonably settled system.
Regards
Graham
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