Comments on: A Vista SP2 warning

By: Computer support

Computer support — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:36:13 +0000

I think, as soon Windows 7 will start, – nobody ever will use and read those blogs about Vista, Vista SP2 and etc. Vista will die.

By: Bert

Bert — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:35:13 +0000

Wish I could install SP2…However I have an ongoing problem with Vista that seems to be arround since XP-SP1 (error 0×800B0100). MS doesm’t seem to be interested in this seeing that there are thousands of hits on the web with the same problem and none with a real working solution (all MS says is: re-install Vista!!).

By: Terence Davies

Terence Davies — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:47:12 +0000

Commiserations Warren, at least I was spared your misery My Vista SP2 upgrade just wouldn’t start.

By: Warren W

Warren W — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:50:03 +0000

Awesome! The machine rebooted after I pressed the OK button. Now I’m in Stage 3 of 3 – for the past 16 hours! The computer just keeps rebooting and rebooting. The harddrive is about to have a metdown, the whole utin is hot, and all I get is “Shutting down…” and then a restart with exactly the same message: “Do not shut down your computer”. What a joke! Some on this blog are saying 45 minutes is a reasonable amount of time to spend when dealing with a major software upgrade. Try 16 hours of not being able to use your computer – and counting. Because this is a farily new package, there are no blogs discussing the issue I am experiencing, but I guarantee you there will be more and more people going through this.

And before anyone says the software has failsafes like restore poiints or command prompt, none work. I’ve tried going through the F8 menu, and regardless of which option I choose I end up in the same place: “Configuring updates: Stage 3 of 3 – 0% complete. Do not turn off your computer.” None of the options work – I repeat this because someone out there will have a smart solution that may work IF you can get the safe mode or command prompt. But you can’t. It’s the endless loop of death, courtesy of our friends in Redmond, WA.

By: LJ

LJ — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:41:28 +0000

After upgrading my Vista Home Premium machine, I found that my Linux (PCLinuxOS to be exact) machines could no longer access my Vista shared directories. Prompts for the Samba share userid/password failed to validate for whatever reason. All of this has worked perfectly for months preceding the Vista SP2 upgrade. I fought with this new problem for 2 days before deciding to remove the SP2 upgrade. After removing SP2, this particular issue ceased to exist.

By: Hugo B

Hugo B — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:56:20 +0000

Sorry to say my experience of SP2 is a complerte disaster! The download went OK but installation after about 45 mins ‘failed’. I had several goes at reinstalling but all failed.

Next step was to look on the www – the advice there was that SP1 should be uninstalled and then reinstalled because of some possible problem involving and update. I did that and now I can’t reinstall SP1.

Looks like a rebuild?

What a ***********

By: Terence Davies

Terence Davies — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:04:05 +0000

Mine upgrade just say “preparing your computer” then after about 10 seconds say “Installation was not successful” “no such interface supported” and under “details” Error: E_NOINTERFACE(0×80004002) Any idea?

By: jackmeat

jackmeat — Sat, 30 May 2009 05:09:27 +0000

so, the fact that my service pack 2 is locked at file #7768 and will NOT get past it in install (and this is now pre-boot) is a noobie problem. does anyone have an idea how to get past this. stuck on pwindowsmanager.exe and refuses to get past it. microsoft hasn’t got past this.

anyway to get around this, I’ll be happy to can the install of sp2 from command prompt if anyone has any ideas

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 30 May 2009 03:25:36 +0000

One thing that has not been mentioned and this comes from more than 30 years with PCs is that…
Don’t be in the first wave of any major operating system or any other program Installation or Upgrade. ( Same as don’t get a new model car in it’s first year of introduction.)

I can wait a week or two, and see how it’s going.
and
Then install after I have had benefit of reading all these wonderful
reports on the Upgrade.

Ps: It is amazing how little feed back there is out there on Visa SP2 at this point !

By: Groovy

Groovy — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:09:49 +0000

Just doing it now….

Installation via WU in Spanish on a Vista Home Premium SP1 shows this:

“Guarde su trabajo, cieere todos los programas y haga click en Instalar

La instalación puede tardar una hora o más y es posible que el equipo se reinicie varias veces. No podra usarlo durante la instalación.

Durante la instalación no conecte ni desconecte ningun dispositivo ni apague el equipo.”

Wich means:

“Save your work, close all programs and click Install.

Installaton can take as long as an hour or more and it’s possible that the computer reboots several times. You cannot use it during installation.

Don’t connect nor disconect any devices neither switch it off during installation”

Now any of you can blame me for my bad english but… this looks to me like a warning to not use the computer and save work before starting the install process.

Just info to know wich version warn and wich don’t. This does.