It Looks Like Vista SP2 must be anyday Now

OMG you're kidding me right! oops >.< i haven't even got SP1 >.<

 

That rock you're under must be very cozy and comfortable. SP1 came out well over a year ago, and EVERYONE strongly, strongly, STRONGLY encourages installing it.

 

Vista is not even usable to me without SP1! lots of bug fixes with SP1 man! U need to jump to teh SP2 bandwagon ASAP d00d

 

I am not going to post links but there are torrents for SP2 RTM.

 

You're telling me, i reinstalled vista the other month and i've just realised why it's so bad atm >.>

 

Quite possibly
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Just curious - will "student MSDN" get access to Vista SP2 prior to the general public too or not?

 

There we go i'm on SP1 now xD

 

Yes it does but ONLY in one form:

 

so does that mean i can't get it?

 

You can't get it, yet.

 

So what do I miss??



(PS: Its MSDN Academic Alliance)

Oh, and inputting your name gives no results in my case... (copied hte filename over)

 

Sucks, oh well guess it's something to look forward to.

on a side note is it possible to break a 25w subwoofer? >.> it sure smells with this song

 

I have no idea what that picture is trying to show me. And I am not at all familiar with the MSDN Academic Alliance. The snippet I posted was from the MSDN partner site. I have access to it as a MCSP. (Microsoft Certified Solution Provider.)

Gary

 

Vista SP2 will be publicly available in Q2 2009 (starts today).
Source http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsvista/default.aspx
I guess that it will be publicly out on the 5th alongside with Windows 7 RC.

 

Possibly this means you have access to more or different software/products.

Thanks Coolguy

 

DetlevCM is sweet like that!

 

I was showing the place where SP2 should show up - it only shows SP1

 

You know, not the continue hijacking this thread or anything, but to me that isn't that big of a punishment. I mean, my Xbox is out in the living room, my laptop usually is, movies...etc. I don't put up a stint when my gf kicks me out, I just go play video games.

 

Just installed it.

 

Well I got tired of waiting for individual standalone installers for SP2 to show up. So I downloaded the only SP2 file still on the MSDN site. That was the 1.3 gig ISO that said it was for 32 bit, 64 bit and Server 3008 versions. Well, lo and behold once I burned the ISO to a DVD, what did I find but three separate standalone installer. Now why the HELL did Microsoft in its infinite wisdom choose to effectively triple the bandwidth requirements for getting this out in the field. Wouldn't three separate files make more sense???

Gary

P.S. I'll be installing latter this evening and will report back.

 

Lucky you.

The MSDN Academic Alliance still doesn't show it

 

I am uploading 64-bit SP2 to filefront now.

Mod Note: Only provide Microsoft or MS approved download link.

 

As promised, I am back after installing the 32 bit standalone of SP2. Went just fine. Don't see anything that strikes me as significantly different, yet.

Gary

 

I installed SP2 this morning, vista takes a bit longer to boot but once it does everything runs smoothly. I am a bit surprised that it only needed one reboot during the install, I was expecting atleast 2 but nevertheless it is working as expected.

 

It will be a slower boot UNTIL you defrag and optimize the boot files. See my signature line below.

Gary

 

Installed it last night, really see why there was no hype surrounding this SP. Doesn't really feel any different, the only problem I have right now is there aren't any patched theme files for this yet, lol. Wasn't there suppose to be some new wifi menu or something? I don't see anything different at all.

 

Thanks Gary that thought never crossed my mind.

Anyway I do have one thing to report since installing SP2. Windows Live Messenger didn't work afterwords, I tried to launch it a few times and nothing would happen. So I just ran the web installer again and it said messenger and some other windows live components had to be updated so I let it run. This was strange seeing as I already had the latest version of these programs, perhaps SP2 brings some new updates to windows live services. This is the only issues I have had since installing the service pack so far.

 

How come I cannot see the link to get SP2 anywhere? Or may be I am not seeing in the correct place? :O boh.. may be I'll just wait for windows update to do its job?!!

 

Just installed this. Must be close now.

And everything related to SP2 has been taken off Technet and MSDN. Someone confirm?

 

Nope, it's still here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/default.aspx
"Windows Vista Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 for all editions (x86, x64, i64) - DVD (English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish)"

 

Any rough estimates on when the SP2 will officially be available to non MSDN and Technet subscribers?

 

^^^ prob another month or two from what i have been reading

 

I installed SP2 (x86) RTM on one of my Dell laptops. To those who've installed it and noticed very little has changed well there is a reason for that.

As Microsoft stated earlier, SP2 is just a few tweaks with all the previous fixes. To prove that, I did a fresh install and first installed SP1 followed by SP2. When I went to WU the only two downloads available for me was my nvidia video card driver and the latest W Defender update.

Search 4.0 as well as .NET 3.5 SP1 were not on the list. So this tell me SP2 took care of all of that. The OS feels no different with SP2.

 

1.3gb, dizamn!

 

Did it fix the annoying habit of Windows Vista where it forgets the folder settings?

 

Much too early to tell. As the "forgetfulness" is pretty random and I have not found any way to reliably reproduce it. I can't tell if it is gone or not.

My understanding is that this randomness is also what has led to the lack of a fix. Apparently from what I have read elsewhere, no one at Microsoft was able to reliably reproduce this issue making it tough to code a fix for it. They weren't saying it was not a problem, only that they could not make it happen at will, and that make is it tough to test any fixes.

Gary

 

If you must have it now, the final version has been leaked all over the net since it went to RTM last week. There's a link in a thread from yesterday:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=378652

 

illegal...
(except if directly from Microsoft)

(and potentially dangerous as malware could have been added)

 

Downloading a free software patch is illegal?

 

It is legally problematic if the provider is not licensed to supply the software.

 

I was reading the thread and then saw a picture of Kate Beckinsale. Now I lost track of what the thread was about.......

 

I was reading your reply then I saw your picture of Alizee, and I lost track of what YOU were saying