Windows Vista Service Pack 1 in the Wild
By Doug Bemis, 07 February 2008 - 21:59 74 comments
By now many of you may have seen reports of Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 in the wild. For a while, it was merely speculation (and several good hints) towards Release Candidate Refresh 2 (RCR2) being the Release to Manufacturer (RTM) build. There has been a 'registry hack' going around for a few days now to enable the option to download SP1 via Windows Update. This 'hack' is actually straight from Microsoft, which was given to beta testers on Connect January 23rd.
According to Geeks Anatomy, Jeff DaVos (a Windows Vista SP1 beta program leader) has said on the Connect news group that this is indeed the same release being used for RTM, and that "What you got is what we're all running our Vista machines here internally - we definitely RTM'd".
Link: Geeks Anatomy
Comments (74)
Gotenks98 - 07 February 2008 - 22:07
I just freaking posted this in the general vista forum about an hour ago.
Simon - 07 February 2008 - 22:15
And your point is...?
Gotenks98 - 07 February 2008 - 22:24
he probably saw what I posted and just reposted it here. Give credit where credit is due is all I am saying.
he probably saw what I posted and just reposted it here. Give credit where credit is due is all I am saying.
You should have used the "Submit News" function if you wanted to see it on the front page.
Radish™
SkyyPunk - 07 February 2008 - 23:11
Nope, didnt see yours sorry. And actually, I had started writing this one quite a bit earlier in the day, but was at work and couldnt finish it until when I had posted it
jwjw1 - 08 February 2008 - 01:18
oh gosh..there goes the bragging rights at schools 'show and tell'
toadeater - 08 February 2008 - 03:22
he probably saw what I posted and just reposted it here. Give credit where credit is due is all I am saying.
So submit it as news next time.
+Shadrack - 08 February 2008 - 05:28
yeah! don't be a douche bag. i'm so freaken tired of these kinds of comments on Neowin. There is a "submit news" link on the main page! If you didn't use it, don't bitch about it. sheeeiiisshhh
Shiranui - 08 February 2008 - 05:51
he probably saw what I posted and just reposted it here. Give credit where credit is due is all I am saying.
Once again I find myself struggling to understand the mentallity of people, like your good self, who complain about not being given credit for conveying publicly available news, the origin of which they had nothing to do with in the first place.
For what it's worth:
Thanks, kudos and all that ********..... to Gotenks98 for cutting and pasting something he found on the web to another part of the web, an hour before someone else.
There, now everyone is happy.
lothodon - 07 February 2008 - 22:11
so this is the microsoft "official" way to get sp1 final?
RAID 0 - 07 February 2008 - 22:14
Yeah. Yeah it is.
kiddingguy - 07 February 2008 - 22:15
What is this 'v Beta1' in the cmd-file about?
See "reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\VistaSp1 /v Beta1 /t REG_SZ /d dcf99ef8-d784-414e-b411-81a910d2761d /f
IF NOT %errorlevel% == 0 ( goto ERROR)"
Isn't this supposed to be final, and -thus- not-Beta?
rseiler - 07 February 2008 - 23:06
Seriously? OK, because when that method was released to testers some weeks ago, it still was a beta. Later it was declared RTM, but that doesn't mean the key changes.
+Xerxes - 07 February 2008 - 22:16
I'm waiting till March when it is offically released, even then I may not even install it. I've heard SP1 seems to create more problems then it solves, so I'm just gonna hang back and wait to hear what people general experiences are with it before it goes anywhere near my Vista machines.
RAID 0 - 07 February 2008 - 22:17
Why don't you just try it in one, if you have Vista installed on more than one PC?
+Xerxes - 07 February 2008 - 22:39
xendrome - 07 February 2008 - 22:42
Someone Officially mark this as the start of "Vista SP1 creates more problems then it solves" era of Forum discussion, and thus we must now hound Microsoft about why SP2 isn't being released sooner, yada, yada, so on and so fourth.
RAID 0 - 07 February 2008 - 22:57
No kidding. Sad. So very sad.
RAID 0 - 07 February 2008 - 22:59
Oh OK. After you format, you will want to turn off ALL updates, use old drivers etc. Why would you want to "ruin" a perfectly good install with updates, patches and service packs. Makes sense to me.
Skwerl - 07 February 2008 - 23:00
You obviously listen to idiots, that listen to idiots, that listen to an idiot that doles out bad advice and unfounded anecdotes.