Mac Daddy

Just an honest question here I want some feedback on. I have been holding off on installing Vista Home Premium in lieu of this service pack as Rege suggested. Is there enough fixes and improvements with this SP1 for me to do so ?

Any feedback welcome

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Chaos

to be honest I dont notice much change if any but it's stable so who's to say

Syncroneyes

anyone know when is the official Vista 64 sp1 expected to be released?

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Dyre Straits

Mac: In all honesty, since I installed Home Premium 32-bit, the more I use it the less I even think about XP. I DO have XP on a separate HDD and can boot into it within 5 minutes simply by shutting down and reconfiguring which drive to boot to. You might want to consider that for your own experience with Vista.

All you need do is install Vista without having any other HDD connected during the installation. Then, just setup which drive to be the boot drive in BIOS and Bingo! You have a dual boot system without the nagging 'which version' screen during POST.

But, I haven't bothered with the SP1 RC1 either. Just the incremental updates.

And, you know how hesitant I was to get Vista, too.

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Chaos

my Vista 32bit has been solid with SP1 RC1

Mac Daddy

Thanks for the additional feedback guys ... 2008 ya never know

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xiaomhome

Just installed it... Its working great (much better compared with vista without SP1, it feels smoothier) and I didnt need the batch thing.

Mac Daddy

THX Dyre and Gen suggested the same thing. Thats exactly what I am going to do when the new upgrade is complete everything gets a fresh install including Vista on a seperate drive with a separate boot

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SpectatorX

SP1 RC is available for two platforms: x32 and x64.

Here you got links:

5 language x32version:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en


5 language x64 version:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en



And multilanguage, supports 36 languages, polish too ;-)

x32:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en



x64:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en



IMO this service pack boosts vista's speed and makes it workin much stable, but i had problem which i had in vista beta 1 too:


any program which saves configuration and settings in external file (e.g. quake 3: q3config.cfg) after sp 1 rc don't uses its own settings, vista just gives to it some settings from nowhere.


Just install e.g. game from quake serie or quake-based, or opera browser and you will see what i'm talking about.



P.S.
Info about this service pack with all this links i've read 12.12.2007 at polish vortal dobreprogramy.pl:
http://dobreprogramy.pl/index.php?dz=15&n=7977
;-)

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Mac Daddy

THX for the links and info Bro much appreciated

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