Microsoft just released service pack1 for vista!

I've been glad to help, but honestly I didn't feel the need to check for the md5 checksum at all because I was sure of what and more important where I was getting my stuff... Tool Tucker is right...
Anyway I'm glad I could help...
I would be very happy to post about the checksum utility and where to get it etc... but I didn't see any post talking about that...
Point me to that and I'll gladly do...

 

There aren't any posts talking about that. There are many posts talking about places to download the SP. I was suggesting that anyone of THOSE messages you see, you might want to interject a link to your post.

Sure, I understand YOU know where YOU are getting this. And ToolTucker may know his source. But if you, or ToolTucker posted a link to a place where the rest of the readers here could download it, how would those readers know THEY could trust the site. And that is what has been going on here the past few days. Folks are posting links and others are HOPING those links can be trusted. And the links might very well be trustworthy. But they just as easily might not be.

What you have just provided those readers is a bonified way to be SURE that those links could be trusted.

Gary

 

I see, I'll be glad to help in that way

 

I don't know why folks here are so eager to download SP1 RTM as we all know that SP1 is not going to/offering any breathtaking performance gains.

 

For me SZ user it helps a lot with the hybrid drive, I can notice the boost...

 

for me the different was simple:
before I could not use vista and was on xp.
Now I use vista with no problem!
also vista is much faster to boot and to copy or move files and ......

 

Anyway, enjoy it!

 

I was able to find a RTM download on a Vista forum Monday and I installed it on my Dell desktop and Acer laptop. But then there was a heated debate on a forum about the RTM build number which had me worried for a while. But then someone posted a quote from a MS employee in the Connect newsgroups:

Run Regedit and look in:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion

and if the BuildLabEx has this value--6001. 18000.x86fre.longhorn_rtm.080118-1840--then you have the real thing.

Paul Thurrot also posted some RTM screenshots which show the above value.

So far it has been working fine on both computers. It installed perfect on the desktop but on the laptop I lost wireless. But a simple reinstall of the Atheros driver solved that.

 

Or just MD5 checksum it and you are good to go! See my post on page 5...

 

I was the one who posted the link. It was to a well known peer-reviewed release site. You find out soon enough from the comments if there's anything wrong with the release - not that there ever is on this site.

NB. This forum isn't a release site. The onus isn't on us to verify the releases.


TT

 

I think you are missing my point. You know it is a trusted site. I know it is a trusted site. But average Joe who comes here may not know it. So then they have to either trust us that it is or skip the download. Now that we have the checksums for a known good copy of the service pack, even the doubting Thomas user can KNOW it is a trusted site.

Gary

 

I think you're missing my point. If the "average joe" doesn't know about torrent release sites, and enough to read through the comments, he's even less likely to know what an MD5 is. He should wait until April for the official Windows Update release.

That link wasn't to a download, it was to a torrent. That should be enough to let you know what risk category it falls into.

On the other hand, if you know about the aforesaid, then maybe you'd appreciate the tip-off.

Either way, like I said this isn't the forum to be getting advice about the authenticity of torrent releases. You go to a site that specializes in it. Like the one I linked.

TT