Windows Vista SP1 Meeting Sour Reception In Places

Stony Stevenson writes "A day after it was released for public download, Windows Vista SP1 is drawing barbs from some computer users who say the software wrecked their systems. 'I downloaded it via Windows Update, and got a bluescreen on the third part of the update,' wrote 'Iggy33' in a comment posted Wednesday on Microsoft's Vista team blog. Iggy33 was just one of dozens of posters complaining about Vista Service Pack 1's effect on their PCs. Other troubles reported by Vista SP1 users ranged from a simple inability to download the software from Microsoft's Windows Update site to sudden spikes in memory usage. To top it all off, the service pack will not install on computers that use peripheral device drivers that Microsoft has deemed incompatible."

quick breath

[Anonymous Coward]

Khaaaaaaaan-

uh, I mean,

Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaates!!!

Re:Time to disable auto install of updates

[sleigher]

Hopefully those of you who do support friends and family weren't cruel enough to put Vista on their machines.

Yep.

[ScrewMaster]

Service Pack 1 is all it's cracked up to be, all right.

Re:How about ...

[Anonymous Coward]

should be able to uninstall the drivers themselves

With emphasis on should, given Microsoft's history on error messages (my document failed to print!) the message probably says something along the lines of "You have incompatible hardware and we cannot install this service pack, have a nice next three days disabling drivers one at a time trying to figure out which one it is"

Everyone's still waiting for SP1 to go to Vista???

[BUL2294]

Hah! Looks like corporations and end-users like me should wait for SP2 or maybe even SP3!

Re:good

[snowraver1]

... and all the muggles will think that means that just like cheese, this game goes well with wine.

"Ooohh, How thoughtful, this game goes with Merlot. Honey! We need to stop at the liquer store"

Newflash!

[Itchyeyes]

This just in: somewhere, someone on the Internet complains about something. More at 11.

Re:And the problem is...?

[griego]

I imagine their criteria is how many bluescreen reports they get from users through their online reporting tool.

Re:Dozens?

[Anonymous Coward]

More people had problems downloading the NIN album.

It's probably not a coincidence that both make me want to stick a red hot poker up my nose and scramble my brains!

I agree

[tkrotchko]

I agree.

That's why when I want an even-handed tech assessment, I always go here first:

        http://www.microsoftisawesome.com/ [microsoftisawesome.com]

Re:good

[|Cozmo|]

All my games are wine compatible (except online-only games that you can't pause). I just have to be careful not to spill it in my lap.

Re:good

[Chris Burke]

Well I have yet to find a game that isn't "wine compatible" in that sense, so there should be no problems!

Re:Problem exists between keyboard and chair.

[GuldKalle]

And, honestly, unless you're like me and testing the service pack for work-related reasons... why are you installing it the day it was released? That's just dumb. At least wait a week.

Yeah, everybody knows you've gotta wait until SP1 SP1 comes along - at least.

Re:Time to disable auto install of updates

[jonaskoelker]

Hopefully those of you who do support friends and family weren't cruel enough to yourself to put Vista on their machines.

Fixed.

Omminous screen saver

[edwardpickman]

Maybe the new Flying Brick screen saver should have been a sign.

Re:I said "Ubuntu can do it".

[MrNaz]

Try either distro with the latest Creative sound card and nVidia graphics card, and if you can get both working with full functionality without the need for a text editor, I shall retract my statement.

Re:How about ...

[TW Atwater]

"Particularly for 64bit, which was almost twice the size of the 32bit update."

Well, let's see. 64/32 = 2. Yup, twice the size sounds about right.

Re:Ubuntu can do it.

[saleenS281]

Ford also expects money for their products. If you never change the oil and the engine blows up, that's ford's problem? That's pretty sad if that is the best reasoning you can come up with.

Re:That IS the service pack.

[Spy der Mann]

The question remains, why did Microsoft choose to do it that way rather than any of the other MORE PREFERABLE TO THE END USER ways that have been mentioned.

User: It doesn't install just because I don't have compatible hardware? This is madness!
Microsoft: Madness? ...
This...
is...
MICROSOFT!! *Throws user into sinkhole of support*

That would settle it then

[microbee]

You need to pass WGA to post on slashdot

Re:How about ...

[Matey-O]

Posh. You make it sound so hard! You just go to the System log, look for errorcode 0x80000000fc, find the filename in question (EBVIA235C.dll), search the registry for the 3rd occurance of that file name, write down the GUID {23301203-12-3-1-2451-2-231-123122312-23), search for _that_, open the file in a editor, search for strings to find the vendor name and search for it on Google.

Easy peasy!