Want Vista SP1? Here’s what to expect
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 19.3.2008
When Microsoft released Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to manufacturing on February 4, they promised to make it available for the general public in mid-March.
Today they delivered on that promise, making SP1 available to Windows Vista users through Windows Update and as a standalone installer package from the Microsoft Download Center.
I covered most of the features of this service pack in detail in my earlier Vista SP1 FAQ and More Vista SP1 Answers, so I won’t rehash that information here. In this post and its accompanying image gallery, I’ll show you what you can expect from the public release.
First things first: SP1 won’t be installed on your system automatically. (Automatic Updates won’t begin for at least another month, and even then they’ll be rolled out slowly.) In fact, you might not even know SP1 is available unless you manually check Windows Update. If you meet the qualifications, you’ll see the download listed as an Important update.
If you don’t see this update in the list of available updates, you might be blocked temporarily by one of the following issues:
* You are running a version of Windows Vista (or have a language pack installed) for a language other than the five available in this release: English, French, German, Spanish, and Japanese. (I ran into this issue last month, on a system that had the Italian language pack installed.) In that case, you’ll have to uninstall the language pack or wait till the full international release is available in a few months.
* You might not have installed the prerequisite updates. SP1 requires updates to the so-called servicing stack (the code that handles updates) and, for Ultimate edition, for Bitlocker disk encryption. If you see other available updates, install them first and then try Windows Update again.
* You might have a hardware component that is using one of a handful of drivers known to cause minor problems with SP1. The issues aren’t catastrophic, I’m told, and most experienced users can resolve the issues (changes to default settings or lost sound, for instance) quickly enough by reinstalling the problem driver. But those options aren’t acceptable for nontechnical users, so the Windows Update detection code blocks deployment of SP1 and offers fixed versions of some (but not all) of those drivers.
Other possible causes include a “known inconsistency in the file or registry structure,” a previous beta version of SP1 installed (uninstall it), and (ahem) you used vLite to modify Windows Vista. Microsoft’s Knowledge Base article 948343 helpfully includes the website address of vLite.
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Comments(23)
just reinstall vista and without installing any drivers except lan or wireless lan update
ur pc.then use loader 2.2.0.......(activate after updating)there u go u ve got vista sp1
activated!!!!!!!!!!hahahahahaha
oh you tried 2.2.0?
i think the 2.1.2 is more easier to use and it works with sp1
too!
the full sp1 image was on msdn a month ago and i tested it. the slic table and bootloader
crap still works, the performance is much better, but i'm going to change to server 2008
this weekend, the performance is incredible!
my activation rolled back from its oroginal state...
i've got only 15 days to
go...
any help
i use the paradox
at junboy
shore, go and buy a legal copy.
how you get the crack work?
are people still using vista?
how terrible for them, they must enjoy
nightmares!
scrote you are a idiot who cant buy a high end pc to run vista normal.
people shouldn't have to buy a new high end pc to run vista. realisticly vista doesn't
do much more than xp. its unfair to expect everyone to shell out more money for new
hardware, plus anyone with any brains knows that vista is an overbloated pig of an os!
to uhm
is it a crime to be poor?
do i have to buy a state-of-the-art computer
to run vista,so that people can be happy about their phucking egos!?
it's because of
you that this world doesnt understand eachother...lemme guess you're american,right,just
because you look at these words,you wanna nuke me to the stone age.
ps-totaly
agree jon.
peace \/
its not a crime to be poor. but you really don't understand economics. if you are poor
you cannot get the state of the art computer, so why the hell do you believe you should
run the state of the art software. i just dont understand your thinking. ps i am not
saying vista is the state of the art, but it is new, and economically the poor shouldnt
expect to have it until the brink of windows 7.
go buy a mac people.
"if you are poor you cannot get the state of the art computer, so why the hell do you
believe you should run the state of the art software."
because they can steal
it. the little thieves talking about cracks here would steal the computer too if they
could get away with it but they can't. must be bad to be so poor though that you can't
even by a copy of windows. maybe try getting out of your parents basement and getting a
job at mcdonald's, then you can buy vista and not have to be begging for cracks on
message boards.
vista is good os
lmao at people too stupid to crack vista lmao
so to you this aint about having the os at all,it's about having two class of people,the
poor with xp and the fat ass rich people with an "awesome" os like vista...
please...
peace \/
i like vista, it just has too much flaws though.
hey, if you can get pirated os, why
not use it? it is free, and it does you more good than bad.
it is true xp and server
2008 has less flaws.
simply installing a service pack now deactivates the os and forces you to call them and
prove you didn't steal your legally purchased os...that's the last straw! i'm sick of
the bull****, i'll never buy another product from that company again!
hahaha, i am an anarchist, i am against classes. but the fact is its sad when people can
understand the current system no matter how screwed up it is. and also i am a rap
artist.. so i like big asses.
mmmmm
but anyways get over yourself and
just ignore vista if you choose to hate it. worse than negative reaction is no reaction
for microsoft.
the new vista sp1 disables the famous oem-hack. i haven't tested this solution yet.
posted in mdl and keznews board:
1. any slic table can be used with this
program, simply by selecting it. no special encoding is present (like in the paradox
crack). all of the slic tables collected are viable candidates for integration.
2. this crack only applies the slic table. it does not apply (or even have) the matching
oem certificates - nor does it install a serial number for vista. both of these steps must
still be done manually using the command prompt and slmgr.vbs.
working fine with sp1:
torrent: http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4091181
mirror:
xlice.net/file/6547f0b107446049b8dbc3f92639f5f1/vsp1acvb0705.rar
to codyp :
you re a crap dom pig! u do not understand how the world and economi
works, go and lesson ur f ass! who r u to define the rights of the poors? junki mess pig!
"hahaha, i am an anarchist, i am against classes. but the fact is its sad when people
can understand the current system no matter how screwed up it is. and also i am a rap
artist.. so i like big asses."
yup...you have the brains and language skills
to make it big in the rap industry. and what time might i expect you to be shot?
uhm, i have a decent computer, when did i mention i didn't?
my reasons for
disliking vistacrap have nothing to do with hardware for me. i just think it's a pile of
overbloated, ill-conceived, spyware shit!
haha i love how an arguments about operating systems get so personal, and then by people
who aren't even involved come in and shine with how dumb the masses are. thus proving my
earlier comments. at least rucamx was making decent conversation.
and 2011 is
when you can expect me to get shot.
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