Windows Vista Service Pack 1

Nickname said:

Yeah I have pretty much decided that beta service packs from MS never work out.

I do believe it specifically states NOT to put beta updates on production machines.

Just as longcat is long, betaupdate is beta.

Liam said:

I’ve noticed my PC running *faster* after SP1. Whats your PC specs?

 

Second, have you scanned for spyware?

i have avg free version, and i browse with firefox, which should help prevent most of that stuff right?

as for specs, go to this site:

teh site

Ok, I’m what you might call a computer nubzilla 3000, but if I got my lappy last summer and as far as I know I do not have the SP1, do I just go to the Microsoft DL center and just simply download and install?? Are there any tricksies that I should know about while/when doing this…Anything to make my computer a lil faster is a plus to me.

And this is the site I believe that I would be downloading it from, maybe?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details…;displaylang=en

And if anyone else has any other good tips for cleaning up a computer or useful programs that everyone should use, those would be greatly appreciated. Right now I have symantec antivirus that my school requires, and then adaware for tha spyz on mah comp…

maybe me and vista just seriously don’t get along, but i’m telling you, i’ve seen more problems than one would expect.

one example you can see for yourselves… this is on my sis’s laptop, her taskbar is there but not drawing. if you hover the mouse over it in the right places, you can still get teh popups for date and time, etc, and the window previews, and you can click on anything on it. you just can’t see it.

(in this screenshot the mouse is hovering over where the sound icon should be, or is, depending on how you look at it.)

Falcon said:

maybe me and vista just seriously don’t get along, but i’m telling you, i’ve seen more problems than one would expect.

 

one example you can see for yourselves… this is on my sis’s laptop, her taskbar is there but not drawing. if you hover the mouse over it in the right places, you can still get teh popups for date and time, etc, and the window previews, and you can click on anything on it. you just can’t see it.

 

 

(in this screenshot the mouse is hovering over where the sound icon should be, or is, depending on how you look at it.)

Looks like pronz. taskkill /im explorer.exe /f

then

explorer =new taskbar.

MasterP said:

Falcon, you might try cleaning the computer, placing emphasis on third party addons. I see 3 things in the picture alone that set off alarms in my mind.

I’m guessing that you are referring to webroot which, if I say so myself, looks COMPLETELY legitimate. I use webroot all the time. It slows down my computer cause it was in TURBO MODE before. Went way too fast.

bahaha, no not pronz… just my sis’s computer. funny thing, it restarted and has a taskbar all good and well. still, windows shouldn’t just forget to draw the effing taskbar.

an the sis insists she’s using the 3 things you be seein… /shrugs.

an the black bars are just from mspaint, added to keep my sis’s name concealed.