Vista SP1 on Technet and MSDN

Supertaff · 15 Feb 2008 at 14:09

Anyone know the procedure to update to this from the last release candidate? Is it all automatic or do you have to uninstall and re-install?

It may be on the technet site but haven't been able to sign in there today.

Cheers

Taff

Stonedofmoo · 15 Feb 2008 at 14:10

To be honest Im not about to update from an RC. I plan to download an intergrated SP1 Vista DVD and reinstall fresh so theres no leftovers.

bledd · 15 Feb 2008 at 14:19

MeatLoaf said:
Hopefully it will be on a torrent soon

they both have for days

Shadowness · 15 Feb 2008 at 15:07

Has anyone on here installed the SP1 from a torrent site? Im a bit worried installing a SP from a torrent site!

marc2003 · 15 Feb 2008 at 15:14

Shadowness said:
Has anyone on here installed the SP1 from a torrent site? Im a bit worried installing a SP from a torrent site!

the files are digitally signed which means they are tamper proof. i downloaded my copy on the 30th jan - at the time i had no idea if it was RTM or not. turns out it was.

Shadowness · 15 Feb 2008 at 15:18

Thanks marc. I will do an install and post how it went (and if I notice any difference!)

marc2003 · 15 Feb 2008 at 15:20

Shadowness said:
Thanks marc. I will do an install and post how it went (and if I notice any difference!)

make sure you check it has the digital signature first - i wouldn't be surprised if there are some files out there without them. just right click the file, properties, digital signatures.....

Rackerz · 15 Feb 2008 at 15:24

Just thought about it and I don't really need to be concerned, I have SP1 anyway.

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Stonedofmoo · 15 Feb 2008 at 15:50

You could still install a digitally signed release candidate however so that doesn't really help much.

marc2003 · 15 Feb 2008 at 16:09

Stonedofmoo said:
You could still install a digitally signed release candidate however so that doesn't really help much.

depends on the date. i guess i should have mentioned that....

the last release candidate was dated sometime in decemeber. the real RTM was dated 19th jan. and just to confuse issues, the files from oem/msdn/whatever might even have a later date although the files inside are apparently identical. basically anything from 19th jan onwards is good.

Shadowness · 15 Feb 2008 at 17:07

Installed SP1, so far so good. I havent done much to notice any speed improvements yet though

scoopex · 15 Feb 2008 at 17:45

SP1 fully installed and working nicely.

Porkford · 15 Feb 2008 at 17:48

Oh well just gunna have to wait untill March as I dont have an MSDN sub

MeatLoaf · 15 Feb 2008 at 18:35

Installed here, seems fine so far

wasc · 15 Feb 2008 at 19:01

Is there any chance of someone mirroring this somewhere or uploading it to a torrent for those of us that don't have Technet Plus subscriptions

Steedie · 15 Feb 2008 at 19:07

Yes please a link would be very much appreciated

ScoobyDoo · 15 Feb 2008 at 19:50

Thanks for the update, just downloading it now from my msdn subscription

jeffa123 · 15 Feb 2008 at 20:53

Just installed the SP1 on the 32 bit version of Vista Premium. At least it shows that I have 4.00 GB of Ram installed now instead of 3.25 GB. The GUI and API seem smoother and less interrupt from ACPI to correct the floww of information from the CPU. And of all things no problems with 4 sticks of Ram installed unlike the 0x0000007E blue screen error I was expecting.
I wonder if it will be as smooth on a slipstreamed version of Vista. I will try it at the end of the month when MSDN releases the slipstreamed versions. I have yet to try it out on my 64 bit version of the O/S. But all is good so far.

Tute · 15 Feb 2008 at 21:09

wasc said:
Is there any chance of someone mirroring this somewhere or uploading it to a torrent for those of us that don't have Technet Plus subscriptions

Please.

marc2003 · 15 Feb 2008 at 21:20

it's been on the torrents for weeks now. but we can't link for obvious reasons. the main sp1 thread got closed because of the repeated requests/links given out.....