Windows Vista had a gift for me this morning, a bright new service pack with promises of improved stability and reliability..
I resisted the urge to press install immediately (It was not difficult considering several bad experiences installing Service Packs in the past (XP SP1, 1a or even SP2..) and waited until I had done some critical work for my clients.
Once that was done and I have a window for the expected crisis that may ensue I pressed the install button, with everything crossed, rabbits foot, horse shoe – you get the picture.
Well, first I had to agree to the licence, I did not read it through so have no idea if there are mentions of side effects or small implosions etc. Then my PC (64 bit Vista Quad core, 8GB, 945 chipset) restarted and during this the now familiar three stage update install progressed.
When it started up again it appeared a little quicker, but nothing too noticeable.
At this point the service pack could be uninstalled as the older files where backed up that where replaced during the install. To make Vista SP2 permanant and save some space run ‘cmd’ as an administrator and type ‘compcln.exe’ and let it clean your system of backup files. IMPORTANT: This means you can never uninstall Vista Service Pack 2.
I also ran my favourite degraf program; http://www.defraggler.com/download to tidy the drives up afterwards.
The system is running well but I can not see any noticeable difference. Obviously there are many 100s if not 1000s of changes made and security is paramount so it is advised (by Microsoft) to install it.
Hope this was helpful.
Andy
Issues since installing
Explorer has crashed once but I think that is due to memory hogging FireFox plugins that I have cleaned up since and no further explorer crashes.
