Re: Vista Service Pack update is junk

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scorpionleather;1114184 Wrote:
There is frequent mention of antivirus, and I did try while disabling
this
prior to attempting to install the standalone full install of SP2. One
computer has AVG Free, the other has NOD32, and the third has
Bitdefender.

Now, the thing that has me perplexed is that these 3 computers are
completely different ages and types (desktop + laptops) from different
manufacturers (Dell + another) and different methods of original Vista
install media (OEM + off the shelf CD)... and there is nothing in
common
with the types of applications installed on these machines, as they
don't
belong to me so the only thing I do is to make sure they are doing
their
security updates.

I spent several hours researching my mother's Vista SP2 failure, and
ultimately that led to the possible solution of re-installing or
restoring
Vista entirely, and that did not seem like an acceptable solution. Then
the
other two computers also failed their installs with different error
codes
and I was totally shocked this could happen to such a major OS.

Tell us something here are you working with one single download or have
you downloaded a separate copy for each one? If the first download is
somehow found incomplete somehow the first step would be to simply
download a fresh copy for each of the three there.

If you simply are dragging SP2 onto an rw disk and moving the same
download from machine to machine being a bad download dump it and go for
another! If all three are connected online download a fresh copy to each
by itself. That would be the practical approach since everyone else has
been seeing favorable results.


--
Night Hawk


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