I dont know if this has been posted yet but Vista SP2 is now on Windows Update.
Windows update alerted me this morning to download it, Going to install it now. Its meant to make Vista faster.
32bit : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a4dd31d5-f907-4406-9012-a5c3199ea2b3
64bit : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=656c9d4a-55ec-4972-a0d7-b1a6fedf51a7
Thanks, Paul. I shall quietly not concern myself. ;)
It's quite an improvement to Vista, from what I've seen. :thumb:
My PC is quicker and it wasnt slow in the first place. So MS must of done something correct this time!
That's good to hear, Paul. Does everything work OK?
Yep, everything works ok.
It actually fixed a problem. When using photoshop, click file > new would hang the PC but it doesnt now.
That's handy. :)
It updated my laptop but failed on my desktop :eek4: Next time I will download it and save instead of run.
I had the opposite problem with SP3 on XP, Den, it failed on my laptop but installed on the other machines. Windows, huh. :dunno:
SP2 is now installed on both of my machines with no problems at all! 8)
Still will not install on my desktop ::) I have tried turning Kaspersky off but it made no difference at all, also saved the update onto my desktop and ran from there. HELP.
installed sp2 yesterday on my laptop, other than a 30 sec black screen delay, at boot up,(which was not there before) not noticed any difference
but the "black hole" gives me time to contemplate the universe, or think about where i left my glasses !!!
Apparently the latest ESET v4 utilities are having problems with SP2 so I'll be holding off until they release an update....
Quote from: scook94 on Jun 01, 2009, 07:49:08
Apparently the latest ESET v4 utilities are having problems with SP2 so I'll be holding off until they release an update....
Eset recommend going back to V3 its pretty bad that they have had SP2 for so long to play with, yet still released a product not compatible with it, they have a statement up here http://kb.eset.com/esetkb/index?page=content&id=NEWS30 SP2 is an improvement but I am not seeing anything amazing really it was quick before on my machine.
I've got V4 anti-virus only on one machine (vc3 on other) and not had any problems - I must be lucky!
Downloading now as I want to see if there's been any improvement to application switching which is horrible on this machine.
Installed!
The only noticeable difference so far is even more disk churning. I think I need to see what settings have been changed.
Afaik, it's only Vista x64 SP2 that's having trouble with NOD32. Is that right?
I thought it was Vista x32 SP2 and NOD 4.
Problem reports in Vista told me to uninstall Adobe Flash Player and then down load the latest version as this might be stopping sp2 from installing. Its been uninstalling for nearly 1 hour, seems an awful long time to me. :o
Quote from: zappaDPJ on Jun 01, 2009, 16:16:49
Installed!
The only noticeable difference so far is even more disk churning. I think I need to see what settings have been changed.
Disable the restore point that gets created on startup, and tweak indexing to only index the locations you really want.
It's all on the to do list Sebby, it appears the installation has changed rather a lot of settings back to default. As an example I was just looking at a video file thinking this makes no sense at all only to realise it should have had audio but SP2 has changed my default sound output to something I don't use.
Failed again. I uninstalled and installed Abobe flash player and abobe reader. Installed a new graphic card (because I wanted to) and it still failed.
E_FAIL(0x80004005) any one know what that is?
I have to say - I haven't noticed any discernible change between SP1 and SP2 on Vista 64.
Steve
I'm dreading turning my laptop on now! ;D
i've installed it on several computers and laptops now and all work fine after.
Quote from: Den on Jun 01, 2009, 21:56:49
Failed again. I uninstalled and installed Abobe flash player and abobe reader. Installed a new graphic card (because I wanted to) and it still failed.
E_FAIL(0x80004005) any one know what that is?
A search of Microsoft's Help and Support suggests 'If third-party disk management tools are used to "clone" disks or partitions, the SP2 installer will be unable to uniquely identify the correct system boot files.' Their solution is to physically disconnect every drive but those that are required to boot Vista or rather predictably to perform a fresh install.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971204/
I tried that this morning :o Unplugged all usb leads (zip and even hubs) also HP media pocket drive and the darn thing goes all the way to the end and then says installation failed. Never had a problem like this before, updates have allways worked OK. The only other things I can think of are Registery Mechnic and Roxio Easy Media Creater 10. :eyebrow:
Oh dear, I really thought that would provide a solution. I'm not sure what to suggest now. Was there any new message when it failed this time or was it the same as before?
I have two hard drives in my Laptop and four partions Vista SP2 went in fine, maybe registry mechanic removed something needed, have you got back ups Den?
Quote from: zappaDPJ on Jun 02, 2009, 15:39:10
Oh dear, I really thought that would provide a solution. I'm not sure what to suggest now. Was there any new message when it failed this time or was it the same as before?
Same message as before. I tried it with turning the computer off and then unplugging the drives and also tried it by using the Safely Remove Hardware icon both with the same result. I'm stumped now ::)
FWIW ESET have released the compatibility patch in today's updates for Vista SP2. Just finished applying SP2 to my machine and glad to report that everything is hunky dory! ;D
:thumb:
Tried once again to up date the darn thing and failed again :red:
Get a Mac, Den. ;D :out:
:iagree: :hehe:
It is raining outside Rik :eyebrow:
;D
Here, it's in my heart. ;)
But the moon is bright, there's stars tonight. :eyebrow:
Deep in the heart? ;)