And your point is...?

he probably saw what I posted and just reposted it here. Give credit where credit is due is all I am saying.

he probably saw what I posted and just reposted it here. Give credit where credit is due is all I am saying.

he probably saw what I posted and just reposted it here. Give credit where credit is due is all I am saying.

Why don't you just try it in one, if you have Vista installed on more than one PC?

Someone Officially mark this as the start of "Vista SP1 creates more problems then it solves" era of Forum discussion, and thus we must now hound Microsoft about why SP2 isn't being released sooner, yada, yada, so on and so fourth.

I could but but both my Vista machines work perfectly fine and I don't paricularly want to stuff either of them up still I suppose I could use that as an excuse to upgrade to Vista x64, since I have to format to install that anyway...still I'm waiting to March.

It's YOU'RE. No, I'm not. I'm just telling you not to update your PC. What makes you think updates (not a SP) will not break "stuff"??? Your logic, it fails.

Your the one assuming I think updates are faultless, which I never said. However, I've heard plenty of reports that some poeple are experiencing problems after installing SP1 so I am cautious about installing it on mine, I never said I would never install it. I see nothing wrong with taking a cautious approach towards a SP.

Source?

There is no one official source that says people are having problems. Just look around Neowin and other websites and there are plenty of people complaining about problems with SP1. This guy talks abit about it, while I admit 90% of those problems are probally fixed by now, it still has me a little concerned about it. I just wanna see what happens once it is out, do people complain that these bugs from the RC builds still exist or will it go smoothly. I am well aware that people with incompatible drivers will not be able to install SP1, so you could make a valid argument that just by the fact SP1 shows up on WU on my machines, that it should install with no issues. Maybe I am just been over cautious but that is why I wanna wait and see.

I've heard SP1 seems to create more problems then it solves, so I'm just gonna hang back and wait to hear what people general experiences are with it before it goes anywhere near my Vista machines.

There is no one official source that says people are having problems. Just look around Neowin and other websites and there are plenty of people complaining about problems with SP1. This guy talks abit about it

NDA violations are fun for the whole family it seems.

I've just installed SP1 using the attached registry thingy in the post. I'll run through the experience for anyone who's interested in the detailed info:

(1) Ran the .cmd file. All it does is add a couple of reg entries; I recommend loading the .cmd file into notepad or another text editor just so you know for certain it's not malicious.

(2) Went into Windows Update, told it to check for updates. It reported a single update, about 4MB. Installed that, asked me to restart, which I did.

(3) Ran Windows Update, checked for updates again. It reported another single update, this time around 5MB. Did the same thing - installed, restarted.

(4) I tried running Windows Update soon after but nothing was detected. Waited a few minutes, tried again, and WU finally showed Service Pack 1 in the list. It's also the first update which shows its size as a range; I think it was something like 60MB - 550MB. I began installation, it took a fairly long time on this laptop, alternating between actual downloading and a lot of hard disk access.

(5) Started the actual install. Appeared exactly like the first two screens on http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvi...sp1_screens.asp but since it was WU-based instead of standalone, it didn't have any remaining screens. Took a while.

(6) Once it had finished its stuff, I went to restart. Now, instead of that "Windows is configuring updates..." message you sometimes get when installing updates, it had something like:

Installing Service Pack 1: Stage 1 of 3: 0%.
Do not turn off your computer.

The first stage got to 100%, then it turned to stage 2, which when it got to 100% restarted the machine. When windows booted up, stage 3 progressed until it booted as per normal. Now I'm here, I've checked System and it shows Service Pack 1 is installed. Also, if you check the above link with all the screenshots, that final one with the registry values? Mine had IDENTICAL build and version numbers as Paul's, which therefore means, if you download using this way, you WILL get what's going to be released later on. It's all good!

Final points:

* Do not be freaked out when Service Pack 1 is downloading, cos it will probably be maked "Service Pack 1: Release Candidate 1". Well, that's not a surprise, because Microsoft decided this particular candidate had reached maturity and hence is the same as the RTM (as shown in the registry).

* There is no "time bomb", there aren't any messages on the desktop stating it's a service pack or anything. It's proper.

* I've been using, for testing purposes on another machine, an OEM build of Vista Ultimate that I got from the evil torrent sites. It's one of those "preactivated" copies which makes life so useful when reinstalling and you don't want to have to reactivate your legit copy, of which I have one as well. Well... Vista remained activated after installing SP1, so the threat of being deactivated hasn't come to fruition. I'm pretty sure those other hacked versions which use tricks to keep it activated will probably fail though, but since this install cannot be distinguished from a truly legit copy, MS couldn't deactivate it, so I'm safe.

So there. Hopefully that's useful enough to make a decision whether to install.

(2) Went into Windows Update, told it to check for updates. It reported a single update, about 4MB. Installed that, asked me to restart, which I did.

(3) Ran Windows Update, checked for updates again. It reported another single update, this time around 5MB. Did the same thing - installed, restarted.