Vista SP1 Update

[Duncan Rounding]

Seen on the BBC site today...
Microsoft is warning Windows Vista users that a forthcoming service pack for the operating system may stop some third-party programs working.
Reflections of the XP SP2 update perhaps.

[CymraegKev]

Hi Duncan - this fully makes sense in my mind. All developers of Vista approved software *should* have been working against the betas of SP1 for a while now getting their software ready.

It is a pain when software suddenly stops working, but at the end of the day the OS manufacturer has to rely on the software vendors to make their software compatible, not the other way round (in my opinion).

I've been using Actinic v8 for the last two weeks or so against SP1 on Vista and I'm happy to say I've had no problems with it :). Also, none of my software appears to have broken by the SP1 install and I'm using mostly standard off-the shelf software.


Cheers

Kevin

[Stereo Steve]

Anyone tried Actinic on Vista 64bit? We have all the bits to build a 64 bit beast here but are deliberating over whether it's going to cause us more problems than it's worth.

[Mark H]

I've been using Actinic v8 for the last two weeks or so against SP1 on Vista and I'm happy to say I've had no problems with it :). Also, none of my software appears to have broken by the SP1 install and I'm using mostly standard off-the shelf software.



Is it any faster after SP1??

[CymraegKev]

I've not noticed any performance increases generally - but then I never had any problems running it in the first place.

One thing that is definitely improved, and I've noticed it is copying of large files (or lots of small files). This is greatly improved.

[Mark H]

One thing that is definitely improved, and I've noticed it is copying of large files (or lots of small files). This is greatly improved.


Thanks Kevin - that's good - I might take the plunge..........

[Darren B]

The bug for drag and drop and copying files - cant belive it was never spotted or fixed before release

[Darren B]

Well i have installe dthe sp1 beta on a pc here and no problems at all, big improvements to the copying and network data transfers, still looking now though

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[CymraegKev]

Hi Darren - the release version of SP1 is out now so I wouldn't worry too much about the beta at this point.

Cheers

Kev

[Darren B]

its only that i was drifting around playing with it thats all

was not sure if anyone else has installed or noticed big changes or problems with the sp1 release as was previously mentioned in this thread

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[CymraegKev]

Ah - I see - fair enough. I've had no problems with it on the six machines I've installed it on, but to be fair, they are all pretty modern machines all with 4GB of ram.

[Darren B]

ooh sorry i did say beta, lol ermm no it was the release version i installed, got beta on the brain as i have been messing with ie8 and ff3

[Darren B]

Ah - I see - fair enough. I've had no problems with it on the six machines I've installed it on, but to be fair, they are all pretty modern machines all with 4GB of ram.

this system is a simple network pc i run for basic office and sco-unix emmulator for the server it has 1gb of ram but runs well, never have any major problems, did do some v9 alpha and beta testing on it aswell

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