Windows Vista SP1 Flunks Out At Penn
 

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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?




He can't remember. :)

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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?

The one that hit me was excessive memory use. After clean boot the OS was
using almost 2GB of RAM. After ripping hard on support they gave me a patch
that does not load automatically - dropped it down to 1.45GB or so and
nothing else changed.

I am not sure, but think it is in SP1.

Windows Vista SP1 Flunks Out At Penn
 

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:43:35 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III" "Reggie is
Here 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).



Windows Vista SP1 Flunks Out At Penn


University of Pennsylvania tech staffers are advising faculty and
students not to upgrade to the new service pack for Microsoft's Windows
Vista operating system.

By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
March 21, 2008 10:53 AM


Windows Vista SP1 Is having a tough time getting into the Ivy League.
University of Pennsylvania tech staffers are advising faculty and
students not to upgrade their computers to the new service pack for
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)'s Windows Vista operating system.

Thanks. Interesting post. Makes me more sure about sticking with XP.
--
John *H*
(Not the other one!)

Windows Vista SP1 Flunks Out At Penn
 

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:51:30 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

"Reginald P. Smithers III" "Reggie is Here wrote in message
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HK wrote:
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.

If a Vista user was happy with their system, why the hell would they care
if the Univ. of Pennsylvania thought the SP1 was full of bugs and did not
recommend people install it?


Excuse me???

If someone's happy with their unpatched computer, but 20 minutes later, they
install a patch and new problems arise, then it's obvious why the hell they
should care.

As far as the source of the warning (the university), institutional IT
departments are often the first to see a pattern. Your experience with your
own computer means nothing without more information.


Whooosh.

Harry is happy with his Vista, and therefore should not care about what the
UP IT department says about it, and therefore should not be attacking
Reggie for providing some useful information.
--
John *H*
(Not the other one!)

Windows Vista SP1 Flunks Out At Penn
 

D-unit wrote:
"Canuck57"



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



Also great for keeping your recipes!!!

db





If you are a fan of absurd computer tales, this is the place to be.

Windows Vista SP1 Flunks Out At Penn
 

"Canuck57"



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



Also great for keeping your recipes!!!

db

Windows Vista SP1 Flunks Out At Penn
 

On Mar 24, 11:32*am, HK wrote:
D-unit wrote:
"Canuck57"

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

Also great for keeping your recipes!!!

db

If you are a fan of absurd computer tales, this is the place to be.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

What about the information week article about Penn State do you not
believe and think absurd?

Windows Vista SP1 Flunks Out At Penn
 

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:20:41 -0500, "D-unit" wrote:


"Canuck57"



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



Also great for keeping your recipes!!!

db



Why?

My recipes seem to do all right on XP, although I'd imagine that Vista
probably adds a little more flavor.
--
John *H*
(Not the other one!)