Windows 7 SP1

On 2011-07-21, Paul wrote:
sillyputty wrote:
Anyone having problems with Win 7 SP1? Wanted to get some feedback
before installing SP1, or not. Thx.

My SP1 upgrade went smoothly, because I had a backup :-) Yours will too.

If I didn't back up C:, I'm sure something strange would have happened.

You can uninstall SP1, as long as you don't use the special
Disk Cleanup option afterwards, to remove the files
associated with the install process. You can perhaps
save 1GB by erasing those files, and then discover later
that you need to uninstall SP1 again. Then you'd be screwed.

There are precious few repair options, once you've installed
SP1. At least, according to this. So take a look at this
first. This is not an argument to avoid installing SP1,
because sooner or later, you're going to have to install
it. This is just a warning about how the addition of a
service pack, changes things.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...r-install.html

"If you have Windows 7 SP1 installed, then you either must
use a "retail" Windows 7 SP1 installation disc to be able
to do a repair install, or uninstall SP1 to be able to use
a retail Windows 7 installation disc to do a repair install
with."

"You cannot use a slipstream Windows 7 installation disc to
do a repair install with on a currently installed Windows 7 SP1."

All I have is the recovery partition on my laptop, which doesn't
qualify as anything like that. It doesn't look like I have
many prospects, for doing Repair Installs.

Paul

Have the backup applications gotten "better" in that the software is
now able to restore individual applications such that only the
registry for the particular app is "restored"?

Many years ago, I've used a 4mm dat tape to backup but was never
able to restore satisfactorily due to the windows registry problems
as usually the registry is not "restored"/re-applied for individual
applications; this required a re-install of the software which defeats
the backup purposes.

I no longer backup the C: drive as my drives are partitioned & the
apps are in different partitions; still need to reinstall the apps but
my data is still inplace. I don't use Chrome as a browser because
it wants to put everything in the C drive & without any option for
installing it elsewhere. Some small stuff is installed in C, but
the downloaded small stuff is in another partition & directory so
they can be reinstalled quickly. This is for the desktop.

For the laptop, I waited too long & am able to only partition it
into 2 partitions. Originally, I didn't think it would matter but
have decided that it would be "safer" to try to have the os in
its own partition incase of reinstall even from the "secret"
partition.

sillyputty wrote:

Anyone having problems with Win 7 SP1? Wanted to get some feedback
before installing SP1, or not. Thx.

I installed win 7 xDark Deluxe x64 v3.5 RG

It went fine, I installed Win7 with great reluctance, it does things I don't
allow on other systems, DRM is also a biggie for me, I only use Win7 as a
dual boot and haven't used it for quite awhile now.

Battle Field 3 requires Win7 for it's DX11, so I see myself using it more
often as time goes on.

I run a quad core. Run: resmon, if you have more than two cores they have been
put to sleep or parked, I over clock for speed and Win7 shut down half my
threads.

Windows firewall isn't to be trusted as it allows certain companies to by pass
it (Adobe for one).

And that's off the top of my head, I don't wish to bash Win7 but it's an
operating system I'd rather not use. Yet must as the games I play are
beginning to use it as their platform. BF3 being the first to totally abandon
the XP.

Console games don't allow the freedom of a PC. Meaning I can use Xfire, Vent,
HLSW and play COD4/7. In my case host a MW2 server in the background as well.
(XP64bit).

Clean install with no problems. I installed it on it's own Hard drive so it
doesn't talk to XP, and select which hard drive to run through the bios.
--

"Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it
to gnaw through the leather straps."

My upgrade went just fine. Before the upgrade I would get random blue
screens of death because of a memory dump situation. After the sp1 upgrade
not one single problem. Don't know for sure if it corrected it but something
did. Good luck to you.

sillyputty writes:

Anyone having problems with Win 7 SP1? Wanted to get some feedback
before installing SP1, or not. Thx.
I had trouble after installation on an x64 machine...wouldn't boot
correctly or something. Finally found the fix, rather obscure, on the
internet. A netbook install worked fine.
--
Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
~ J. Krishnamurthi

No big deal otherwise but SP1 replaces the boot loader so get legal
before you upgrade.

LP,
Jure

On 20. 07. 2011 23:44, sillyputty wrote:
Anyone having problems with Win 7 SP1? Wanted to get some feedback
before installing SP1, or not. Thx.