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Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Well, I was hoping MS might have corrected their problems with SP1,
but it looks like they are up a creek without a paddle (boating
reference).

More b.s. from Reggie the Snark, who doesn't give a tinker's dam about
Vista, but only posts this crap to *try* to annoy VISTA users, who,
sadly for him, think him only a bigger fool for playing this game.

I don't have my kid's Vista laptop here to poke around in. I'd like to
call him and give him a heads-up. How do you check quickly for the
presence of a service pack? Right click "my computer", as done with XP?

I'm not sure SP1 downloads all by itself.

In any event, I'm running SP1 VISTA. Everything on this system is
running in nominal fashion.


Do you have a "my computer" icon on the desktop? If yes, please right
click it, click properties, and tell me if you see any mention of which
service pack is on the machine.

Service Pack 1

Thank you.

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Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Well, I was hoping MS might have corrected their problems with SP1,
but it looks like they are up a creek without a paddle (boating
reference).


More b.s. from Reggie the Snark, who doesn't give a tinker's dam about
Vista, but only posts this crap to *try* to annoy VISTA users, who,
sadly for him, think him only a bigger fool for playing this game.


I don't have my kid's Vista laptop here to poke around in. I'd like to
call him and give him a heads-up. How do you check quickly for the
presence of a service pack? Right click "my computer", as done with XP?


I'm not sure SP1 downloads all by itself.

In any event, I'm running SP1 VISTA. Everything on this system is running
in nominal fashion.


Do you have a "my computer" icon on the desktop? If yes, please right
click it, click properties, and tell me if you see any mention of which
service pack is on the machine.

What I heard two days ago is that the Vista SP1 at this point in time must
be requested by the users. Sometime next month MS will start pushing it to
everyone.

Just what I've heard, take it for what it's worth.

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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Well, I was hoping MS might have corrected their problems with SP1,
but it looks like they are up a creek without a paddle (boating
reference).


More b.s. from Reggie the Snark, who doesn't give a tinker's dam about
Vista, but only posts this crap to *try* to annoy VISTA users, who,
sadly for him, think him only a bigger fool for playing this game.


I don't have my kid's Vista laptop here to poke around in. I'd like to
call him and give him a heads-up. How do you check quickly for the
presence of a service pack? Right click "my computer", as done with XP?


I'm not sure SP1 downloads all by itself.

In any event, I'm running SP1 VISTA. Everything on this system is
running in nominal fashion.


Do you have a "my computer" icon on the desktop? If yes, please right
click it, click properties, and tell me if you see any mention of which
service pack is on the machine.

What I heard two days ago is that the Vista SP1 at this point in time must
be requested by the users. Sometime next month MS will start pushing it
to everyone.

Just what I've heard, take it for what it's worth.



I dunno about Vista. With XP, you could tell the OS to alert you when
updates (pranks) were available, but give you a choice about downloading &
installing. Not sure if Vista has that option. Considering how often
people's days were wrecked by some of the past updates, you'd think MS would
still offer that option.

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Well, I was hoping MS might have corrected their problems with SP1,
but it looks like they are up a creek without a paddle (boating
reference).

More b.s. from Reggie the Snark, who doesn't give a tinker's dam about
Vista, but only posts this crap to *try* to annoy VISTA users, who,
sadly for him, think him only a bigger fool for playing this game.

I don't have my kid's Vista laptop here to poke around in. I'd like to
call him and give him a heads-up. How do you check quickly for the
presence of a service pack? Right click "my computer", as done with XP?

I'm not sure SP1 downloads all by itself.

In any event, I'm running SP1 VISTA. Everything on this system is
running in nominal fashion.

Do you have a "my computer" icon on the desktop? If yes, please right
click it, click properties, and tell me if you see any mention of which
service pack is on the machine.
What I heard two days ago is that the Vista SP1 at this point in time must
be requested by the users. Sometime next month MS will start pushing it
to everyone.

Just what I've heard, take it for what it's worth.



I dunno about Vista. With XP, you could tell the OS to alert you when
updates (pranks) were available, but give you a choice about downloading &
installing. Not sure if Vista has that option. Considering how often
people's days were wrecked by some of the past updates, you'd think MS would
still offer that option.



The option you describe is available.

On Mar 21, 5:13*pm, HK wrote:
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
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"HK" wrote in message
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Well, I was hoping MS might have corrected their problems with SP1,
but it looks like they are up a creek without a paddle (boating
reference).

More b.s. from Reggie the Snark, who doesn't give a tinker's dam about
Vista, but only posts this crap to *try* to annoy VISTA users, who,
sadly for him, think him only a bigger fool for playing this game.

I don't have my kid's Vista laptop here to poke around in. I'd like to
call him and give him a heads-up. How do you check quickly for the
presence of a service pack? Right click "my computer", as done with XP?

I'm not sure SP1 downloads all by itself.

In any event, I'm running SP1 VISTA. Everything on this system is
running in nominal fashion.

Do you have a "my computer" icon on the desktop? If yes, please right
click it, click properties, and tell me if you see any mention of which
service pack is on the machine.
What I heard two days ago is that the Vista SP1 at this point in time must
be requested by the users. *Sometime next month MS will start pushing it
to everyone.

Just what I've heard, take it for what it's worth.

I dunno about Vista. With XP, you could tell the OS to alert you when
updates (pranks) were available, but give you a choice about downloading &
installing. Not sure if Vista has that option. Considering how often
people's days were wrecked by some of the past updates, you'd think MS would
still offer that option.

The option you describe is available.- Hide quoted text -

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In a previous post, Isaid I wouldn't know a Vista from a Shasta, but
my wife just got a new lappy with Vista, and she knows her way around
a computer a lot and exercises it much more that I can fathom, and she
hasen't complained about anything with Vista... Yet

Tim wrote:
On Mar 21, 5:13 pm, HK wrote:
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Well, I was hoping MS might have corrected their problems with SP1,
but it looks like they are up a creek without a paddle (boating
reference).
More b.s. from Reggie the Snark, who doesn't give a tinker's dam about
Vista, but only posts this crap to *try* to annoy VISTA users, who,
sadly for him, think him only a bigger fool for playing this game.
I don't have my kid's Vista laptop here to poke around in. I'd like to
call him and give him a heads-up. How do you check quickly for the
presence of a service pack? Right click "my computer", as done with XP?
I'm not sure SP1 downloads all by itself.
In any event, I'm running SP1 VISTA. Everything on this system is
running in nominal fashion.
Do you have a "my computer" icon on the desktop? If yes, please right
click it, click properties, and tell me if you see any mention of which
service pack is on the machine.
What I heard two days ago is that the Vista SP1 at this point in time must
be requested by the users. Sometime next month MS will start pushing it
to everyone.
Just what I've heard, take it for what it's worth.
I dunno about Vista. With XP, you could tell the OS to alert you when
updates (pranks) were available, but give you a choice about downloading &
installing. Not sure if Vista has that option. Considering how often
people's days were wrecked by some of the past updates, you'd think MS would
still offer that option.
The option you describe is available.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

In a previous post, Isaid I wouldn't know a Vista from a Shasta, but
my wife just got a new lappy with Vista, and she knows her way around
a computer a lot and exercises it much more that I can fathom, and she
hasen't complained about anything with Vista... Yet


It takes a while to get used to the changes. UAC drove me battier until
I figured out how to shut it off.

Now that I have VISTA more or less under control, I am messing around
with Apple's Leopard OS.

More fun than attending a NASCAR race, for sure. :}

HK wrote:



More fun than attending a NASCAR race, for sure. :}

Wwll, that's not saying much.

LOL!

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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Well, I was hoping MS might have corrected their problems with SP1,
but it looks like they are up a creek without a paddle (boating
reference).


More b.s. from Reggie the Snark, who doesn't give a tinker's dam about
Vista, but only posts this crap to *try* to annoy VISTA users, who,
sadly for him, think him only a bigger fool for playing this game.


I don't have my kid's Vista laptop here to poke around in. I'd like to
call him and give him a heads-up. How do you check quickly for the
presence of a service pack? Right click "my computer", as done with XP?


I'm not sure SP1 downloads all by itself.

In any event, I'm running SP1 VISTA. Everything on this system is
running in nominal fashion.


Do you have a "my computer" icon on the desktop? If yes, please right
click it, click properties, and tell me if you see any mention of which
service pack is on the machine.

What I heard two days ago is that the Vista SP1 at this point in time must
be requested by the users. Sometime next month MS will start pushing it
to everyone.

Just what I've heard, take it for what it's worth.

You are correct. If you want it this month, you have to go into update,
select it and tell it to upgrade. For most machines, about an hour.

SP1 does not fix all issues. It did improve memory management a bit,
improvements in network copy performance and disk to disk copy. I think it
even fixed a bug or two in mail.

But am I happy with Vista? Nope. But not going to double pay for MS for XP
either. Testing out some Linux alternatives.

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On Mar 21, 5:13 pm, HK wrote:
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
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m...
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"HK" wrote in message
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Well, I was hoping MS might have corrected their problems with
SP1,
but it looks like they are up a creek without a paddle (boating
reference).

More b.s. from Reggie the Snark, who doesn't give a tinker's dam
about
Vista, but only posts this crap to *try* to annoy VISTA users, who,
sadly for him, think him only a bigger fool for playing this game.

I don't have my kid's Vista laptop here to poke around in. I'd like
to
call him and give him a heads-up. How do you check quickly for the
presence of a service pack? Right click "my computer", as done with
XP?

I'm not sure SP1 downloads all by itself.

In any event, I'm running SP1 VISTA. Everything on this system is
running in nominal fashion.

Do you have a "my computer" icon on the desktop? If yes, please right
click it, click properties, and tell me if you see any mention of
which
service pack is on the machine.
What I heard two days ago is that the Vista SP1 at this point in time
must
be requested by the users. Sometime next month MS will start pushing it
to everyone.

Just what I've heard, take it for what it's worth.

I dunno about Vista. With XP, you could tell the OS to alert you when
updates (pranks) were available, but give you a choice about downloading
&
installing. Not sure if Vista has that option. Considering how often
people's days were wrecked by some of the past updates, you'd think MS
would
still offer that option.

The option you describe is available.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

In a previous post, Isaid I wouldn't know a Vista from a Shasta, but
my wife just got a new lappy with Vista, and she knows her way around
a computer a lot and exercises it much more that I can fathom, and she
hasen't complained about anything with Vista... Yet

If all you do is surf, email and light word processing, you could be happy
with Vista. But going beyond that, it deteriorates fast.

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Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Well, I was hoping MS might have corrected their problems with SP1,
but it looks like they are up a creek without a paddle (boating
reference).


More b.s. from Reggie the Snark, who doesn't give a tinker's dam
about Vista, but only posts this crap to *try* to annoy VISTA users,
who, sadly for him, think him only a bigger fool for playing this
game.


I don't have my kid's Vista laptop here to poke around in. I'd like to
call him and give him a heads-up. How do you check quickly for the
presence of a service pack? Right click "my computer", as done with
XP?


I'm not sure SP1 downloads all by itself.

In any event, I'm running SP1 VISTA. Everything on this system is
running in nominal fashion.


Do you have a "my computer" icon on the desktop? If yes, please right
click it, click properties, and tell me if you see any mention of which
service pack is on the machine.

What I heard two days ago is that the Vista SP1 at this point in time
must be requested by the users. Sometime next month MS will start
pushing it to everyone.

Just what I've heard, take it for what it's worth.

You are correct. If you want it this month, you have to go into update,
select it and tell it to upgrade. For most machines, about an hour.

SP1 does not fix all issues. It did improve memory management a bit,
improvements in network copy performance and disk to disk copy. I think
it even fixed a bug or two in mail.

But am I happy with Vista? Nope. But not going to double pay for MS for
XP either. Testing out some Linux alternatives.


What sorts of memory management issues are you noticing? How do they
manifest themselves?