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Vista Service Pack 1 deployed for x64-based systems

by Parm Mann on 21 February 2008, 11:10

Tags: Windows Vista, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)

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Microsoft continues to puzzle with SP1 deployment

It has to be one of the strangest Service Pack releases you're ever likely to see. Microsoft's Windows Vista Service Pack 1 was released to manufacturing earlier this month and everyone then assumed the Service Pack would undergo an imminent roll-out. Not quite, citing third party driver conflicts, Microsoft offered up the following deployment schedule:

  • In mid-March, we will release Windows Vista SP1 to Windows Update (in English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese) and to the download centre on Microsoft.com.
  • In mid-April, we will begin delivering Windows Vista SP1 to Windows Vista customers who have chosen to have updates downloaded automatically.

As you'd expect, a few days later, SP1 landed in the hands of pirates. Trying to confuse us that little bit more, Microsoft's VP for Windows product management, Mike Nash, then announced the acceleration of Vista SP1's roll-out by making it available to volume licensing customers by the end of last week.

Today however, Windows Update tells me I have one important update to install on my 64bit Windows Vista Home Premium-based system - Windows Vista Service Pack 1 for x64 based Systems (KB936330).

Windows Update

Windows Update

Other users don't yet seem to have been prompted for the install and even my own x86-based Vista laptop doesn't have the update available. Oh well, I think I'll give it an install and hope for the best.

*Live installation updates*
So, here I am, now on my laptop, watching Vista Service Pack 1 install on my desktop PC. I'm surprisingly nervous, considering that Service Pack 1 is supposed to be a good thing. Nonetheless, here's how I'm getting on:
11:19am - Installing Service Pack 1 update
11:28am - First reboot required. "Installing Service Pack: Stage 1 of 3 - 25% complete"
11:34am - Stage 2 of 3 - 0% complete
11:38am - Stage 2 complete, shutting down - what happened to stage 3?
11:39am - Ah, there it is, Stage 3 of 3 - 0% complete, must be getting close now
11:44am - Stage 3 complete, I'm now logging back into Windows
11:46am - I'm back in Windows, everything seems normal and there are no new updates available to install. 27 minutes later, I'm running Vista SP1. That's a pretty swift and painless install.



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Up to 712MB? wow!

Any idea how much it actually needed to download for your update?
96-120mb when I did it a while back (s'what it said on the screen). It certainly didn't download 700 odd meg.

712mb is for all languages etc etc
Funkstar
Up to 712MB? wow!

Any idea how much it actually needed to download for your update?
It depends entirely on how many updates you have installed prior to that. Last time I tried it through the batch file method it was around 110mb.

I'm running SP1 now and I'm happy with it. Only had a single problem with Vista x64 pre-SP1 anyway (Sony Vegas 7's media manager stumbling over, somewhat ironically, on MS's MSDE), so wasn't expecting any issues though.
I'm now watching it install. Typing from my laptop, updating article with installation process as I go along. Service packs sure are fun! :)
Parm
I'm now watching it install. Typing from my laptop, updating article with installation process as I go along. Service packs sure are fun! :)

Sadly it's not that exciting. Once you've rebooted at “Stage 2 of 3” you're almost there btw.

Mine required reactivation afterwards..