[access-uk] Re: installing vista SP1
- From: "Graham Page" <gpage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:46:17 +0100
Hi George.
well fortunately I had nothing to remove and was installing on a basically
clean laptop with a dual core 1.8 GHz processor and 2 GB of RAM but the process
took well over half an hour. I don't know how much difference it has made
either. I think Macafee removal has done more to speed up the PC than anything
else to be honest.
Cheers
Graham
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----- Original Message -----
From: George Bell
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:56 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: installing vista SP1
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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