Vista SP1 - Do You Need It? - Comments Page 2

Quad-Core CPU, GeForce 8800 video card. I installed SP1, and now my screen goes blank at least once a day. Computer and monitor still running, just the screen goes totally black. I have to reboot to get things back to normal.

Installed VSP1 3 days ago and have not had a problem. I really can't tell if there has been a performance improvement, I never had any performance issues before VSP1.

"EDITOR'S NOTE: Interesting... it was released on 3/18, and MS said the rollout would be in about a month. Maybe the Vista Premium installs get priority."

I dont believe that is the case. I have Vista Home Premium installed on my machine and I also have automatic updates turned on. I did not recieve SP1 automatically. Infact, I did not even know about it until I read this article here.

It's been almost a week now since I have installed SP1 and I still stand by my orignal statements that SP1 is well worth the download and install taime. Love it

I got a message that Vista SP1 for Vista Home edition update was ready to be installed on March 26. It installed in about an hour and everything seemed to be working fine. When I turned my Toshiba laptop on the following day it would not start up. I ended up having to go back to the restore point before SP1 was installed. I haven't any idea what caused the problem with the SP1 install, but I guess I will wait until another SP version is ready and try again.

I tried installing it on my Toshiba Satellite A135-S4427 Notebook. After it tried to install the first step, it could not install, and reverted. I tried killing all services, an when I did that, I could not connect to the internet, and when I turned on the services I needed to connect, Windows Update would not run. So I turned that back on, and it kept getting an error when I tried to run it. Wouldn't even download the SP. It sounds like this is going to be a forced install in the near future. I hope not.

I just updated my HP DV6670ee laptop w/ Vista Home Premium to Vista SP1, the update took approximately 2hours. The update went fine and, after reboot, one improvement I noticed was my Vista Index (performance) rating went up from 3.1 to 3.4.
But the problem is, now, the media controls (volume, play/pause, quickplay,DVD) located on the upper part of my keyboard, stopped working. And trying the Media Control Keys causes "Windows Explorer" to crash. It is much better with the factory installed VISTA.

So Vista is getting...eh.....BIGGER? It was to slow and big before, so i unistalled it. My computer is much faster now!

Vista (Business) Service Pack 1 was just installed on my computer by Microsoft Update and now I cannot connect my CISCO VPN as I always get an Error: "Secure VPN Connection terminated locally by the Client. Reason 414: Failed to establish a TCP connection." I have tried reinstalling the VPN Client version 5.0.02.0090-k9 which did not help. I am currently without a solution to this problem.

Killed my toshiba at home. After booting up it freezes. I was able to get my data from Safe mode. Now I am debating on wether to start with a clean install but I hate to do that. This sucks! I need my computer!

Had similar issues as Steve819 but in a Toshiba Satellite L30-101 running Vista Basic. Left it installing SP1 yesterday morning, it said it had failed and was removing the changes, then came up with the logon after it had finished configuring itself. Instead of logging on, I chose to shut it down, and when my partner powered it up later on, she got the choice to either repair Windows or start normally - either option just results in the same screen coming up, over and over again. We didn't get a Vista CD with the laptop, just a Toshiba PC recovery disk, which I'll have a go at tonight to see if I can get to a restore point... I guess if I have to take it to be repaired, Microsoft won't be offering to foot the bill? How can they get away with releasing service packs that actually kill people's computers???