My Windows update wants me to download Vista Service Pack 1. Is this genuine ? Are there any bugs ?

It says the download may take hours

When they issued Service Pack 2 for XP, the computer magazines gave away CD updates. Is this likely to happen again so I can avoid the download ?

In theory, I could leave it to download overnight but inevitably five minutes after I go to bed they will pop up a little window saying " Windows needs to know your inside leg measurement in order to proceed "

Rightly or wrongly i installed Vista SP1 on Saturday and all seems ok at the moe on my Laptop , but time may tell , fingers crossed here . My comp is set for auto downloads so i dont know how long it took as it only told me when it wanted to install it .

Mike

[Edited on 21/7/08 by miikae]

sorry to say that when i downloaded it it crashed my computer, it downloaded alright but when i went to restart my computer it came up with a message saying that it was installing update and stuck on that screen for about 2 hrs. it then restarted itself again and said that the service pack had not installed correctly and it was resetting back to the previous settings -> which took another 2 hours!

does anyone know ehre the codecs can be found fro media player in vista ??

Austin - What codecs do you need?

This application will install nearly everything under the sun and even allows Media Player to play flash movies!

It's freeware.

http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm

I'm Vista'd up and use these codecs on all my Vista PC's with no issues!

im after the latest windows media codec's for vista as well, how do i know which on to download and where about is it on the site

Vauxhall Omega - Any of the full version links are fine.

This seems quite quick on my connection..

Click me to download the full codecs

cheers fella, had me with the vauxhall joke there for a second

i jsut ran a free test to scan my windows media player files and it came back with 860 problems

[Edited on 21/7/08 by omega0684]

Downloaded and installed.

Computer seems to work OK

Fingers crossed

[Edited on 22/7/08 by Macbeast]