OFFICIAL: Windows 7 SP1 General Availability Feb. 22

lol a linux fan i guess

 

I guess very very soon.

And oh btw, when I used to look for Windows 7 SP1 before, I used to get directed to the RC page.. but now it directs here:

https://www.microsoft.com/oem/en/downloads/pages/windows_7_sp1.aspx

 

This is it! The real deal!

 

There is no real deal or fake deal, just check the file checksum to verify authenticity.
In fact filechecksuming should be the security standard.

 

Ok, thanks for the tips!

But it seems the RTM version to me, am I wrong?

 

RTM = Release to Manufacturer (Signed off)
The difference is just the wave of release.
Basically they do it in this order
-> Manufacturer -> Technet Members -> Public
But the file is the same.

Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) 32-bit
Filename: windows6.1-KB976932-X86.exe
Filesize: 563,934,504 bytes
File Verification:
MD5 Checksum: 4bf28fc00d86c936c89e2d91ef46758b
SHA-1: C3516BC5C9E69FEE6D9AC4F981F5B95977A8A2FA
CRC: 5EB0FA87
Build Version: 7601.17514.101119-1850
Release Version: 7601.17514.win7sp1_rtm.101119-1850
Digitally Signed by Microsoft Corporation: ‎Sunday, ‎November ‎21, ‎2010 5:40:14 AM

Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) 64-bit
Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Filename: windows6.1-KB976932-X64.exe
Filesize: 947,070,088 bytes
File Verification:
MD5 Checksum: 28d3932f714bf71d78e75d36aa2e0fb8
SHA-1: 74865EF2562006E51D7F9333B4A8D45B7A749DAB
CRC: 068C79C6
Build Version: 7601.17514.101119-1cdn850
Release Version: 7601.17514.win7sp1_rtm.101119-1850
Digitally Signed by Microsoft Corporation: ‎Monday, ‎November ‎22, ‎2010 8:57:13 PM

Use Microsoft fciv tool to calculate file checksum or any of your favourite checksumming software

 

Got it! Thanks!

 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=c3202ce6-4056-4059-8a1b-3a9b77cdfdda

I think that'll be the link later on but it wont let me go there now

 

Download it from softpedia and do a checksum.

 

Just finished downloading it off Microsoft Downloads site, which was pretty much the link Shotta35 posted ...took me only a min to download. Good guess... I tried it an hour ago, but it was locked with a login prompt.

 

So MS only made a 2gb all in one iso available?

I think I will wait for it to come through windows update.

 

Checking to see if those are the RC first - oops

 

The download just went live on Microsoft's download center.

 

On Windows Update now too so everyone can enjoy!

 

Using windows update on a fully updated x64 system the SP1 download was only 83.7mb

This really is only collection of past updates plus a little extra.

 

Same as wave above, ~85MB download size and took around 7 minutes to install on an up-to-date OS.

 

An unexpected way to do it....

 

Just did the update through Windows Update on one of our machines and I noticed a nice feature that I don't recall seeing in previous service packs; the ability to delete Service Pack backup files through Disk Cleanup.

(note: you have to select "Clean up system files", not through the regular Disk Cleanup)

 

Between the download and the install, it took 50 minutes for me. Ugh. I think it's partially to do with the other four updates I have, but still, that download should have taken about a minute...

 

No. There are also separate .exe installers for x86 and x64 available. Your choice.

Michael

 

Does anyone have a link (legit) of Windows 7 with SP1 slipstreamed/already integrated into the .iso?

 

Yes, I think so too...

61.8 MB here - 4 updates (3 important, 1 optional) - and Service Pack was one of the 3... the size before starting the update was listed as 44 MB to 531 MB... and when I started the windows update, I see the total size of 61.8 MB.

 

Anyone getting a Code 80073712 ERROR when trying to install SP1?

 

What am I missing? I checked Windows Update today on my notebook (and just did again) and only got three 'Update for Windows 7 x64-based Systems' updates but no Service Pack.

Maybe they pulled it back? Or it was never published....

 

..........or the download server that is servicing your region hasn't been updated yet.

 

Have you checked the 'details' for the updates??

For some reason, actually, in my case I had like important and optional updates and when I went to see what they were, there was the service pack update which for some reason was unchecked!!

Then I checked the box and went ahead!

 

I'm getting a Service pack installation cannot continue error due to one or more system components that the service pack requires are missing.

I haven't touched Windows 7 anything since I installed it. Looks like it somehow has auto-corrupted itself.

 

Odd that some people report 7m installation time. I went for the 2gb .iso file and it took me around 50mins. Keep in mind I pretty much had all the available updates from windows updates already installed.

 

I updated my x64 win 7 pro to sp1 via windows update. The download was ~ 80 Mb (it included a couple older updates in addition to sp1). However, after installation I have 2 Gb less space on my hd. I tried disk clean up but it said there were 0 bytes of "service pack backups". Does anyone have any idea whats going on?

 

Did you use Driver Sweeper in between driver updates?

If so you're mostly screwed as Driver Sweeper was deleting some required files.

 

I had the Win7 SP1 - RC installed and that was 800MB. I uninstalled it and did SP1 via Windows Update. It was 82MB and there was nothing to clean up. What was available to clean up were the backups from when I installed the RC version, but now the Windows Update version.

 

Yes, I did use it for my graphics driver updates. Why in the hell would it do that?

 

I had used Driver sweeper in the past to clean Nvidia drivers, and just installed SP1 successfully. Your issue might be related to something else.

 

Yea, i'm in Panama for the week so I guess it hasn't been published for South America as yet....

Checked and the details are just what I mentioned above...'Update for Windows....'

 

It only breaks people with ATI cards. Here is a thread on Phyxion's website, the software authors, and includes a "possible" fix, but not everyone is having success.

 

Same here but I used the offline installer instead.

used space (before and after): 17.9GB ------> 19.6GB

- service pack backups also showed '0 bytes'.
- And my boot time went from 30 seconds to 53. Maybe it will take time for Windows to optimize itself.

 

these day you don't really need the driver cleaning programs
i never use them now
years n years ago you needed them because the driver install programs were badly written
these days there not

 

I also lost 2 GB, couldn't cleanup the backup files. Disk cleanup shows "0 bytes" for service pack backup files. Installed SP1 through Windows Update.

 

I lost no space at all. Actually gained some once I cleaned up the files from the Release Candidate of SP1.

 

Strange as it may sound, installing SP1 on my HP Envy 14 with an Intel X25-M SSD freed up a grand total of 4 GBs of space. I was/am shocked. Very pleased of course, but shocked.

I have my hunches as to why, but still, any insight into why there are such varied amounts of space usage post-update would be much appreciated!

 

That make sense because you already have a previous version of what you are installing right now; thus no significant increase in disk consumption.

Just my hunch; you have a lot of temp files (program temp files, browser caches, etc) and when sp1 was installed; it also cleaned up all these files which exceeded 4 GBs...

... prolly you have 6 GB worth of temp files. If you remove that and add in the extra 2GB from sp1; then it would make it seem that you lost 4 GB...

.. I may be wrong. In my case; I cleaned everything first (used ccleaner) before updating and took note of my used space.

 

Certainly a reasonable hunch, but unfortunately probably not accurate in my situation. I too use CCleaner pretty regularly, and although I didn't use it the moment prior to updating, I did use it a day or two earlier. Is it possible that additional non-SP1 specific files which aren't removed by CCleaner would have been deleted due to the update?

In general I'm curious as to why, if in fact installing SP1 flattens (or consolidates, trims, whatever the correct term is) earlier patches, multiple computers which I assume were all up-to-date otherwise prior to SP1 would have significantly different results in the amount of drive space added or removed.

Just a thought, I haven't read through exactly what SP1 entails, but does it include software updates for Microsoft programs other than core Windows 7 files? If so, I suppose there would be some significant variance if it flattened the updates on a computer with a bunch of extra Microsoft stuff on it but did not do so on another computer simply because the applicable software wasn't even present.

 

Ah, but you cannot install the Windows Update version of SP1 over the Release Candidate version. The RC must be uninstalled.

When I downloaded RC, it was 800MB. The disk cleanup backup file was 800MB. Upon opening Add/Remove Programs, to uninstall RC, I had a very small list of updates that showed as being installed. The Service Pack REPLACED all of the updates. When I uninstalled the RC version (time consuming, even for SSD), all of the individual updates were then listed again and my OS was put in the position it was in as before SP1 - RC was installed.

Perhaps I showed no significant shift in disk space because I was up to date on my updates? But... there has hardly been 2GB worth of updates.

I cannot see the connection of how having the Release Candidate had any impact on disk space, especially when it was only 800MB, and its removal was a prerequisite for the formal SP1 installation.

 

And so the conspiracy continues on....

... honestly you all give valid points. A couple of users lost 2GB, others didn't... and although I'm over caring with my installations, it wont kill me if I don't get an answer right away.

 

Gah! This is ridiculous. I posted in their thread on the forum. We'll see, I would hate to have to do a Windows reinstall right now.

Thanks for pointing me the write direction rschauby!

 

most likely there wasn't much update then. check if you can clean up shadow copy images (system restore points).

 

look at post
http://forum.notebookreview.com/7172746-post38.html
for reducing the used space. Worked perfectly for me.

 

look at post
http://forum.notebookreview.com/7172746-post38.html
for reducing the used space. Worked perfectly for me.

 

After installing the 2gb iso i had around 960mb to clean through disk cleanup, after that the used space was pretty much as it was pre sp1. Note that before installing sp1 the installer creates a backup (incase something goes wrong) thats one of the reasons why you might loose a few hundred megabytes after the installation.

 

Could it be that those who can delete files with cleanup have once done a clean install, while others have a OEM preinstall?
The cleanup tool recognizes the backup as non MS standard and leaves them. Just guessing.