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Comments on: Nuts and bolts of Vista SP1 RC Refresh

Upgrading your Vista operating system to the Service Pack 1 Release Candidate Refresh is complex and not necessarily for everyone, at least not yet.

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by chustar January 15, 2008 7:33 PM PST: "Only if you feel incredibly comfortable crippling your machine should you bother with this monstrosity."
Harsh, dude. Really harsh.; Like this Reply to this comment


by Marvil12 January 15, 2008 8:56 PM PST: raw; Like this Reply to this comment


by irfakrama January 15, 2008 10:06 PM PST: I want; Like this Reply to this comment


by jifa January 16, 2008 1:15 AM PST: no thans; Like this Reply to this comment


by john3347 January 16, 2008 3:14 AM PST: I tried SP1 RC and it really screwed everything up even much worse than the un-patched Vista was. Even their special error reporting website didn't work. (Probably much overloaded). Chustar calls the authors conclusion harsh, but Microsoft has worked very, very hard with Vista to deserve every word of the assessment.; Like this Reply to this comment

by drmadnan January 16, 2008 7:48 AM PST

vista sucks!! it is sooooooo resource hungry that it cripples my computer. Microsoft should realise that Operating System is a mean to an end, it should not become the end in itself--that's precisely the problem with vista.

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by tony.will January 16, 2008 10:15 AM PST: Totally agree.Vista sucks the life out of my machine.All games run much slower.I would switch to linux if more games supported it.Have gone back to XP for now.; Like this


by dburr13 January 16, 2008 10:18 AM PST: SP1 RC went in fine for me...There is a noticeable improvement in battery life since i installed it in my laptop...So far no problems with the service pack...But i can see where some of the more technically challenged people might have some problems with the installation process.; Like this Reply to this comment


by dusters16 January 16, 2008 3:32 PM PST: I like how my non-vista-certified Dell XPS Gen 2 Laptop is running Vista better than it did on XP. The rc's and refreshes just add to the smoothening out of Vista, making it better, for me at least.

So here's thumbs up for Vista!; Like this Reply to this comment

by romanom January 17, 2008 2:07 AM PST

WARNING- If you have SP1 RC and it doesn't uninstall properly forget you will NOT be able to install any future version without repairing Vista.

I have learned this the hard way! Just wait for the final RTM release.

Just look here at all the people you have gone through the whole process only to have the install fail at the very end. Then Vista will "revert all changes" which takes just as long as the install. You can waist hours for nothing!

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=1992&SiteID=17

I should have bought an Apple!

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by AnasQ January 17, 2008 3:08 AM PST: man, it's "waste" not "waist"
use a dictionary!!; Like this


by AnasQ January 17, 2008 3:09 AM PST: I like Vista so far, once I got my laptop I had to install up to 300Mb of updates for windows and office 2007.
can't wait till SP1 is out...; Like this Reply to this comment


by GilbertoH January 17, 2008 6:54 AM PST: I just did the update last nigh... (whole night process) the speed was increased, at least for me and lan working..
Finally i was able to set the aero and cost me the same amount of RAM as plain windows vista without the service pack.
But....
After one week only... the computer start to become slow again.... I am not sure what it is because the RAM resources are same, however I still have troubles with the wirelles... I have to disable it and enable it sometimes 5 or 6 times to get WAN connection... LAN connection is ok always...

Note. I am using a Windows CAPABLE PC with 2.5Gigas or RAM.. and Vista Business

Also... to turn it ON, normally take from 3 to 5 minutes... now it take from 2.5 to 3.5 minutes..

To turn it OFF, normally it take 2 minutes... not it take almost 8 minutes.... (real pain when i am on a hurry..; Like this Reply to this comment


by rs3 January 18, 2008 8:44 AM PST: Well for me vista has been running "okay". It really depends on how you use it. I dont have supedup pc; its just a basic computer used for mainly internet. I have disabled the vista theme and and configured some stuff on msconfig and also other little tweaks like the start bar etc. Besides i quite like the classic start bar.

Anyway i say go with vista for who ever want to use it, its gonna end up being one of the vastly used Os's just like xp has bin..............sooo id say wait until a fully tested "less" buggy SP1 comes out.

-cheers; Like this Reply to this comment


by computer_tech February 4, 2008 10:54 AM PST: what makes me laugh is you all think its there fault but over 98% of the time its the fact that users think they know what to do but end up messing it up. for things like vista you need to be sure your cleaning it at least 2 times a week its not like its hard or a time sucker there are many good programs to replace disk defrag such as disk perfect that offers a offline defrag and clearing things like cookies are a 10second process i have vista with minimum ram on a laptop and have little to no problems so go read some books learn how to use your ******* computer then if u still have problems you can blame Microsoft; Like this Reply to this comment