Recently, Well... Around 3 hours ago I tried to install beta (version .668) of the highly anticipated service pack for windows vista.
It turned out to not only be a huge hunk of shit on my hard drive and waste of time, but it was also a tedious procedure.
I'll run you through it if you weren't already up to speed.
1. Download the registry entry from microsoft.com which grants you the ability to see the service pack in windows update
2. Go to windows update. Click "Check for updates" button. Wait 1-2 minutes for vista to think. Download the update (1.008) which is an update to vista which is necessary for the service pack... it doesn't show up until after you have the registry entry.
After installation, reboot.
3. Open windows update back up. Click "Check for updates" button. Wait 1-2 minutes for vista to think. Now click on the next update (1.028). Reboot.
4. Let your computer configure updates each time (2-5 minutes). 2 Please wait screens.
Enter password. Please Wait.
5. Windows update. Again. this time... Click "Check for updates" button. Wait 1-2 minutes for vista to breath. Download the service pack. Wait 10-20 minutes (even on a 30 mbps connection, microsoft.com update servers couldn't use more than 1mbps).
6. A wizard appears. Go through it. Wait for vista to download the rest of the service pack. (10 minutes).
7. After this, the computer install the update. Wait.
8. Computer shuts down, saying "Configuring updates" Computer reboots.
9. Enter password, vista says " Configuring updates"
10. Vista logs you out. Says "Installing service pack. Stage 1 of 3" with a progress bar. Each step takes 10 minutes.
11. When you hit 100% on stage 2, computer reboots. You log back in. Vista says "Please wait"
12. Vista then takes you to the "Installing service pack. Stage 3 of 3" screen. With a progress bar. Computer goes rather quickly.
13. Computer reboots. Log back in. "Please wait". Reboots.
14. "Configuring updates". Log in. "Please wait".
15. Congradulations. You have just sat through roughly 2-3 hours of "please wait" "configuring updates" and "check for available updates".
So you might ask... What does sp1 do for you?
Nothing. - If anything it has made the problems I was having before (long boot-up times, slowness in photoshop, slowness in copying files) and made ALL of them worse.
-12GB - 2.5 hours
The only difference....
