I believe this has been posted before (albeit not in this thread), but if you're happy to leave SP1 in place - i.e. you won't be uninstalling it - click Start, type in 'Vsp1cln' without quotes, and then press Y in the command prompt window. You should get a fair bit of disk space back, but you'll lose the ability to roll back to pre-SP1.
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same here, i started to ghost my machine last night "just in case" and will apply the update today.
If you don’t see it in windows update then read this http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=948343 .
I had the same problem last night. It didn't give me any information as to why it failed. I'll try again tonight.. if I can be bothered.
I guess i can still roll back if i have an Image saved with Acronis TrueImage and do the above, correct?
Guess I have some driver incompatibilities then. I'll just leave it until they sort themselves out - cba fighting with driver updates.
And as for going x64 on my machine, I would if I didn't have to pay for it (it's my own machine so don't really want to use the MSDN license from work).
And as for going x64 on my machine, I would if I didn't have to pay for it (it's my own machine so don't really want to use the MSDN license from work).
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installing now 
Windows Update didn't offer the update to me because I've got two bits of "problematic" hardware (SigmaTel audio and UPEK fingerprint reader). Did the manual install (AIUI the worst case was I'd have had to reinstall the drivers, ho hum) and it worked fine. 
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for some reason on windows update it crashed when i tried to DL it so downloading the standalone now
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SP1 via windows update killed my install, had to repair back to pre-SP1.
Intelide.sys error stopped me booting.
Intelide.sys error stopped me booting.
Same conflicting hardware I have. Coincidence?Windows Update didn't offer the update to me because I've got two bits of "problematic" hardware (SigmaTel audio and UPEK fingerprint reader). Did the manual install (AIUI the worst case was I'd have had to reinstall the drivers, ho hum) and it worked fine.
I'll bear that in mind though.
Much as I feel insulted and demeaned and I'm so going to sue (
) for not being offered SP1 from day minus 30 or so, I'm not sure I'd have installed it anyway (other than in a VM, and I already have Server 2008 there which has the SP1 enhancements anyway).Windows Update didn't offer the update to me because I've got two bits of "problematic" hardware (SigmaTel audio and UPEK fingerprint reader). Did the manual install (AIUI the worst case was I'd have had to reinstall the drivers, ho hum) and it worked fine.
thats strange, i've got a dell m1530 with both those things, and my computer picked up via automatic update the wave 0 sp1 installation. no problems at all, so far.
It depends on the driver versions you're running - I had updated drivers for the UPEK, but couldn't find any for the SigmaTel.
Berserker said:Same conflicting hardware I have. Coincidence?
Great minds?
It's a Dell Latitude D820, FWIW.
