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Fuzzy Logic I can’t believe it... Vista SP1 works! But how?
Fuzzy Logic I can’t believe it... Vista SP1 works! But how? | I can’t believe it... Vista SP1 works! But how? |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Thursday, 22 May 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 3 I also downloaded any other remaining updates, and started loading some of my favourite software back – things such as Firefox 3 RC1, Skype and more.Featured Whitepaper
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But beyond those two programs, everything else was working fine, and I obviously had alternate Internet security software which had installed without issue. So, to get SP1 on my system, I basically had to reload it with a fresh copy of Vista, and then try putting on the manual install version. Thankfully it worked, and everything since then has actually been running better than before. Now, just because SP1 has finally worked for me, doesn’t mean that you are guaranteed to have a trouble free experience. The very best advice that anyone can give you before installing any update of any kind at all is to make an image based backup of your complete system, alongside whatever other backups of your data you have that you normally make. That way, if something goes wrong, no matter who the update is from, you will at the very least be able to, within a few minutes (less than an hour), re-load that image and continue from where things stopped. Getting SP1 onto my computer did take some time, what with imaging, re-loading images, installing SP1 etc. So, don’t do this before a long day’s work, it’s best kept to when you have time to spare. SP1. You’re finally on my system. You aren’t “slow pack 1” or “snafu pack 1” on my system after all, although I took all the precautions to make sure that you wouldn’t be. It’s a shame I had to totally re-install to get you in place. But you’re here at last. Welcome to my computer. You’re here permanently now, I hope you keep on behaving yourself as you have been so far. Now the countdown to your yet-to-be-born sibling, SP2, has begun, alongside the race to put four to the floor to get Windows 7 out the door. And while I’m still playing with, and enjoying your competitor, Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04, Windows Vista is still the PC OS that lets me do more. Vista’s birth was indeed painful, and while Windows 7 is still years away, I hope you’ve learned your lessons, Microsoft, and that Windows 7 is a much worthier, smoother, friendlier and more successful... encore! |
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