My opinions on Vista SP1, 8 months later..

Going to install SP1 RTM now. Hope it will fix my Explorer has stopped working problem. (touching wood) :cool:

Yay, it's fixed :)
 
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dirtydog said:
How?
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Unless we are talking cross purposes here, in Vista Explorer to move up one level you simply click the penultimate folder listed in the address bar. That's one click. The advantage is, you also have to option to go up more than one level in a single click if you wish.
 
Ed Bott of ZDNet has confirmed the MD5's of the standalone updaters from Microsoft :

The following information applies to the standalone 5-language packages:

x86 (32-bit): Windows6.0-KB936330-X86-wave0.exe
MD5 checksum: d597866e93bc8f80ecca234c4e9ce5a2
x64 (64-bit): Windows6.0-KB936330-X64-wave0.exe
MD5 checksum: 983308426e8ee7649f53b41f4e5c42d4

Might be a good idea to check the MD5 of anything you're considering.
 
Nathan I'm not sure if I've misread what you've typed but it looks like your saying "all IT professionals use Vista" as in, that's the only OS they use and recommend.

Do you mean that's the main OS they use or that's the only OS they use or it's one of the OS' they use?

I'm sure IT pros must try a range of operating systems and pick which is best depending on the clients needs. E.g. Businesses will probably go with XP because they don't update their computers very often and the average computer in their office wouldn't be able to run Vista reasonably well. Designers will probably use OSX as the photography, design, etc programs only run on that OS. You get what I mean :)
 
boo. thanks to sp1 rtm, i've got my first hardware related problem. file copying to my external usb2 hard drive is now slower than when i had no updates/sp1 rc installed. beforehand i was getting 23-25mb/s now i'm lucky to get 15-16mb/s. :(

i only use my drive once a week just for backups but it's the principal that counts. they shouldn't be breaking things. :p

reading files from the drive is about the same - 30mb/s, it's just writing that is slower.
 
[DOD]Asprilla;11023222 said:
That's not really true though is it.

No IT dept or business is going to roll-out a new OS until there is a decent knowledge base and reasonable expertise they can call upon.

We have only just finished our XP roll-out to over 8000 desktops and we have had to retain some 98 machines because some of our bespoke software isn't compatible.

However, we are already looking to commence our Vista programme, but roll-out won't start until 2009 when we've finished our assessments.
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Missing out several pages of replies here in quoting this but I wondered whether you could take advantage of virtualisation for those bespoke software apps? We have a couple that won't yet run under Vista, so I made a copy of the old XP machine using VMWare converter and then ran then as a virtual machine under Vista with no problems at all.

Bear in mind though that running a VM on vista without 2GB of RAM or more is a slow slow process.

CK
 
Kemik said:
Nathan I'm not sure if I've misread what you've typed but it looks like your saying "all IT professionals use Vista" as in, that's the only OS they use and recommend.

Do you mean that's the main OS they use or that's the only OS they use or it's one of the OS' they use?

I'm sure IT pros must try a range of operating systems and pick which is best depending on the clients needs. E.g. Businesses will probably go with XP because they don't update their computers very often and the average computer in their office wouldn't be able to run Vista reasonably well. Designers will probably use OSX as the photography, design, etc programs only run on that OS. You get what I mean :)
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All I'm saying is that genuine IT professionals involved heavily with Microsoft technologies have got Vista on their home workstation - and probably their primary machine at work as well.

Not sure where all the "what they recommend to their customers" has come from. That's not what I was saying :) And besides being an IT professional doesn't necessarily mean you are in a position to make OS recommendations to customers...
 
I started rolling out Vista in our business (50 staff) last year. I coincided it with the natural hardware update cycle and will continue to do so over this year and next.

Our users have had very very few issues with moving to the new OS and in all the project is a success. Where program compatibility was an issue the use of Virtual Machines has proven to be an adequate solution until the developers of that software get off their behinds and make their software vista compatible.

I've seen the file copying bug first hand and it has caused "me" lots of frustration. So much so that on my old machine I used to routinely remote desktop into the target server machine and file copy from that end as it was orders of magnitude quicker. I'm hoping SP1 sorts that problem out.

The only other problem has been with printing via a Win2003 print server. For reasons known only to itself Vista wants to re-install printer drivers if I restart the print spooler service on the server! I'm hoping SP1 fixes that too !
 
Ok I installed Vista on Saturday to DB with XP and it's now up and running with SP1 RTM installed. First impressions after so long are... not too bad actually. I switched off UAC for the moment (please don't flame me I don't need to hear this argument again) and the majority of my programs seem to have installed fine, the only expecptions being ones that weren't compatible with Vista to start with, but that doesn't phase me as it's easy to acquire the latest versions.

Peformance seems OK, very good with my 150GB Raptor. I had one BSOD prior to installing SP1 (on a restart funnily enough, just as Vista was about to cut off and restart the machine), was very strange, but it hasn't re-appeared since.

Drivers all seemed to install smoothly... only one that took a bit of work was my Logitech Quickcam4000 Pro, but that's now up and running happily.

Basically no problems as of yet, and i've noticed that my video is smoother than it was in XP without a tearing issue that I just couldn't resolve, but i'll give a full report again in a few days (after I also buy 4GB of DDR2) when all has had time to settle and i've had chance to get everything how I like it.

I just need to get hold of an 8800GT and then try some games...
 
Strangely enough my absolutely standard setup with Gigabyte DQ6 and non overclocked Q6600 still won't hibernate or sleep after SP1 - it just hovers with screen off for 15-20 minutes, all fans blazing, before it reboots (and boy - it is massively slow after crash reboots). It's the sole most annoying issue with my Vista at home for me. Linux on that machine will standby, XP in multiple boot will hibernate, Vista just goes dark and pop...
 
Ozymandias said:
Ed Bott of ZDNet has confirmed the MD5's of the standalone updaters from Microsoft :

The following information applies to the standalone 5-language packages:

x86 (32-bit): Windows6.0-KB936330-X86-wave0.exe
MD5 checksum: d597866e93bc8f80ecca234c4e9ce5a2
x64 (64-bit): Windows6.0-KB936330-X64-wave0.exe
MD5 checksum: 983308426e8ee7649f53b41f4e5c42d4

Might be a good idea to check the MD5 of anything you're considering.
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what program do you use for MD5's?
 
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