SP1 Disaster...
Mar 23, 2008
Auto update picked up and installed SP1 tonight.
When I cam back all seemed ok. Opened IE with no problem, opened Windows
Mail - blue screen -
It gave an 0x0000008E code and something about tcpip.sys.
I shut down and tried again - same when I opened Mail plus I realised all
sound had gone.
Then while taking out SP1 I got another blue screen -
"a process or thread crucial to the system operation has unexpectedly exited
or been terminated" 0x000000F4
I've carried on with the uninstall after the restart.
Other that run the sfc /scannow what should I do to see if all is back to
normal??
Guess I'll not bother with SP1 thanks.
New (from November 2007) fairly high spec Dell running Ultimate.
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Jun 8, 2009
I discovered the mother of all inferiorities of Vista vs WindowsXP.It turns out it's incapable of one of the fundamental - BASIC tasks Operating System must perform.FILE COPY/MOVE/DELETE takes ages, progress bar is lying, "Calculating Time Remaining" - you should see that dialogbox, it's spells death to productivity, it borders on the level of completely unusuable OS in our environment where we move 20-50GB/day on my CAD laptop Hilarious! Why has God punished me so that WinXP disk was missing and I installed this joke OS expecting an "upgraded" exprience?? I wish I could ascreenshots/pictures.
Please don't refer me to the known Vista "Network Autotuning" bugfix, I am not even copying over the network, it's an external USB2 Harddisk that used to take seconds to pump fairly large files, specificlaly it achieved 15-22MBps transfer rates.
Vista humps along at maximum 2-3MBps, then stumbles into the range of KBps and calculating GODDAMN TIME REMAINING or lying progress bar, then goes back to 2-3MBps, then again down to KBps range.I'm still wasting huge amounts of my time while I wait for Vista to calculate the time remaining before even starting to transfer files.
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Mar 23, 2008
Does Microsoft even care?? The software routinely hangs, crashes, won't process, freezes or you get error messages when processing as noted in several posts here?
- Are there any patches via Microsoft?
- Is there a version of Outlook Express that works with Vista?
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May 22, 2008
I have a computer that was working very well, but lately when I was working on a important project, there was a power fluctuation for a couple of times (I thought that was normal) but after the last power fluctuation my computer refused to boot up. There seems to be a failure of some kind?..but I need to get the projects back that are still in that disk.
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Apr 7, 2008
I am one of the many users experiencing problems with wireless connections that work until your laptop goes into powersave mode, then only allow "Limited or No Connectivity" I have 2 wireless routers, a Linksys and ActionTec, supplied by Verizon with FiOS and Linksys has helped me a couple of times to make it work but that is all. Verizon is clueless. As am I since I have 4 XP laptops that all work. Vista is apparently trying to prevent me from hurting myself, and therefore I am unable to fix it.
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Jun 22, 2008
In the current article published by Newsweek in the MSN Explorer's Technology section called "Microsoft After Gates (And Bill After Microsoft)", one of the sentences in the article says (in part) that Vista is a disaster and that it is having performance failings. What people are saying about Vista? Do they agree with Newsweek's verdict?
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