{"id":62,"date":"2008-04-18T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T07:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2008-04-18T06:13:26","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T13:13:26","slug":"vista-sp1-upgrade-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Vista SP1 Upgrade Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my computers doesn’t automatic update. Instead, it alerts me to an update. The other day, the alert came up and, being bored and not wanting to work, I clicked the annoying bubble. The update was Windows Vista SP1<\/em>. I installed it. I survived.
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\nSome folks downloaded the SP1 update early. They didn’t hit upon the Don’t Do This<\/strong> warning. There was much gnashing of teeth.<\/p>\n

When I was greeted with the SP1 update notice I immediately panicked, but in a good way. I first backed up my stuff, both to the external hard drive and to an SD card. Then I installed the update.<\/p>\n

The warning said that the update would take up to an hour, so I passed the time by working on an old single-stroke motor out in the Wambooli Space-Time-Robotics Labs. When I returned, the PC was prompting me to restart. I did.<\/p>\n

Upon shutdown, the updates were installed. The scary warning said, “Do not unplug or turn off your PC during this process.” I wonder who would be fool enough to do that?<\/p>\n

When the computer came up again I saw . . . nothing. I heard Windows start on the speakers, but saw nothing. The hard drive light was going nuts. I figured the update was still installing. The warning might have said something about that, I didn’t really remember.<\/p>\n

After 15 minutes, the hard drive light stopped. There was nothing on the monitor. Actually, the computer has two<\/em> monitors and there was nothing on either of them. Ugh.<\/p>\n

I don’t believe the monitor problem was with Vista SP1. I’ve seen the problem before. For some reason on my PC, the video card goes silly after an update (which is why I manually do them on that computer). So I unplugged both monitors and tried each of them one at a time. That worked. I had to reset the monitors, their resolutions, and positions in the Display Properties dialog box. But other than that, I did survive the Windows Vista SP1 upgrade.<\/p>\n

What You Get With the Upgrade.<\/strong> Nothing. The SP1 update doesn’t add any features, but addresses a number of issues. Sadly, one of them is not<\/em> speed; Vista continues to not be a faster operating system than XP. (That’s okay: Mac OS X Leopard is not faster than it’s predecessor, OS X Tiger.)<\/p>\n

Do I Recommend It?<\/strong> Sure, why not. Backup. Save your stuff. It will be okay. Heck, if you have automatic updates configured, the update may have happened already!<\/p>\n

How Do I Know Vista Has Been Updated?<\/strong> Press Win+R to summon the Run dialog box. Type in winver<\/code> and click OK. The About Windows dialog box appears. If it says “Service Pack 1” in there somewhere, then you have the update. Click OK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my computers doesn’t automatic update. Instead, it alerts me to an update. The other day, the alert came up and, being bored and not wanting to work, I clicked the annoying bubble. The update was Windows Vista SP1. I installed it. I survived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}