Problems with vista SP1

[HCI]

After installing half of my computer would not work. The main problem I had was I had to reinstall almost all of my USB device drivers, another I just noticed it disabled my task manager from running. Anyone else have problems with SP1.

 

[freakedout]

Brand new computer. I just had it for two hours and was putting firewalls and anti-virus on it. I noted that it had downloaded some windows update pre-sp1 stuff and was instaling it. Endless reboot here I come. I had to purchase a restore disk from gateway. They would not cover the cost because it was a microsoft problem. It corrupted everything. I am regretting giving vista a go already.

John

 

[Neutron]

Vista so far has been great, but I think I will stay away from SP1.

 

[Stargazer]

I was doing a service call at someone's house and noticed that her computer had SP1 update put on it. It also did not have the task manager available (it was grayed out) and it was an HP computer. That computer was so messed up. I could not go to any webpages but I could ping the websites. I think it got a virus because the anti-virus program was no longer on it and the woman said she had put that on there before.

 

[freakedout]

I was actually installing AVG Free when it went to hell. I had delayed the restart and was doing it manually. You know how windows installs updates when you cut off the computer. When it came back up the crashing and rebooting started. I usually make my own restore disk but it was so new I had not done so yet. From now on it will be my first move. That and a backup to an external hard drive.
Lesson Learned. I am just glad I did not have anything valuable stored on it.

John

 

[HCI]

I was actually installing AVG Free when it went to hell. I had delayed the restart and was doing it manually. You know how windows installs updates when you cut off the computer. When it came back up the crashing and rebooting started. I usually make my own restore disk but it was so new I had not done so yet. From now on it will be my first move. That and a backup to an external hard drive.
Lesson Learned. I am just glad I did not have anything valuable stored on it.

John

Does your computer by any chance have a partition just for restore?

 

[Pepper]

The problem is likely not Vista, but some of the preloaded crapware the manufacturers are notorious for.

If I were to ever buy a retail PC again (not likely), step 1 is to delete the OS partition and install from scratch a vanilla OS without all the preloaded crap.

 

[freakedout]

It did have a restore partition but I could not access it. Not even from the bios.

 

[avediswolf]

I got a new laptop that came w/ vista home premium.
As soon as I uninstalled the bloatware that came with the laptop, I did my updates, then installed SP1.

So far I've had no issues, been working pretty decently.

With all the bad about vista, I figured I'd be getting XP, but so far so good.