[medeanj]

I installed the SP1 took about an hour or so for everything to install.
However when I opened Word 2007, the mouse did NOT work. It seems I have to delete something in the registry to get it up and running again.
I hate it when Microsoft pretty much uses average users to be their guinea pigs to find all the bugs. And I would not call myself an expert in OS maintenance. Our Mac is great, but I cannot do my job with it. Either way I am SOL.

[VHMP01]

wcblaser, I've been running older programs with 'Compatibility' function within Vista (no problems so far):

[VHMP01]

Reddout, I have just simply configured Vista towards all performance and no looks (eye candy) to all the users I give service to at work (between 50 and 100). Therefore, if you want performance it can be achieved, some may want ‘eye candy' above performance also.

[piyushsingh]

the compatibility mode works for many of my old programs too. Also rt clking and run as administrator makes some old installers to work which may not initiate properly on double cliking even in an admin account.

[OutToPasture]

As one that has just switched from an XP machine to a Vista laptop twice, (my first Dell was a lemon and had to be replaced) I can vouch for the large number of hours required to reload the Vista machine, since I have about 18 other applications that go on my machine and there are lots of tweaks that need doing in Vista.

One thing that did help however was using the Belkin USB transfer cable and Vista's built in transfer software for settings, docs, pictures and music. It catches your email setting and contacts and even your dial up setting if you have one for occasional use. It took a few hours to tranfer all this stuff, but it worked just fine and in my opinion was better than doing it manually from backups.

Once all this was done, I am fine with Vista, since i bought a higher powered Dell that handles Vista just fine - faster than my XP HP machine. And these days, having quite good spam protection in Vista mail is a definite benefit.

Looking ahead, i am likely going to purchase Imaging software such as Shadow Protect Desktop 3.1 to tranfer everything next time as in if my Vista machine dies again.

[busygy]

Must say this. Just got a NEW high performance PC (64bit, fast, lots of mem.etc) (my dream machine). I was ready to send it back! I was pulling my hair out! Many hours manually running patches, updates, fixes, you name it! Total frustration!! FINALLY, SP1 came out... Everything is fixed!! Running like a charm, so far. Very Happy!! SP1 was a lifesaver (I've been using Vista Ult 32 on other PC & things starting to bog down there, so that's my next work. I'm sure all will be BETTER). As I said, now..new machince Vista Ult 64 and all it find. No I don't think Vista is the greats to come down the pike, but it is nice, when it works, and all is working well for me, now, with SP1.

Don't know what eles to say!A computoer is made to malfunction,and keep us humans busy. Research things according to your own systems and whats going on, BEFORE you go to VISTA & SP1. You always take a chance, BUT in most cases, you CAN fix it.

GOOD LUCK ALL!

[Skieley]

After downloading SP1 my Outlook email has slowed down to a crawl. Never had any trouble before, now it takes 7-10 minutes to download about 100kb of email. Unbelievable!

[Grouchy]

I remember when XP was new. everybody was whining and crying about the exact same things. Now its Vista. My outer is an Acer , Athlon 64x2 At 2.2 ghz with 2 gigs of ram. It never was slow even out of the box with Vista.SP1 has sped it up and solved some problems with older software I have. Sure there are problems with drivers, there always will be, but they can be made to work with a little patience. Enough with all the crying and lets get on with the good things in life, such as a geat OS that brings a lot of visual enjoyment to computing.

[AJMAG]

I have vista home prem,which does quite alright as far as i am concerned,no hassles since installed in MAY. Why is it that poor vista gets the blame for every problem except global warming,and i'm sure there is some goose out there that still will! It can't all be vista, it might be the operator??? Anyway installed SP1 a day ago and i can definately say i have had an improvement in performance, albeit,a small one, maybe about 10% with a bit more to come hopefully. Also, only about 20-25 mins to install with no hiccups. ATB peoples

[VHMP01]

This has got to do more with Ports than Vista's SP1... Some users had a similar problem taking hours to send e-mails in Outlook, I asked my web-server's support and they told me to change SMTP Port, problem solved.

[samspade]

internet explorer now has to restart after installing active x for onecare online scanner and if i lose my DSL conn. IE7 hangs a few seconds when i click to close it. other wise no problems.

[Skieley]

Good news! After several hours of slow performance, my Outlook email seems to have miraculously speeded up. Apparently, the OS takes a little time to learn the user's preferences and once it does, the performance is as good if not better than pre-SP1.

[keishason]

My first computer purchased in 1998 was a Gateway, which lasted 7 years. Had WIN 98SE never any problems. Finally decided to buy a new Dell with XP. It crashed 3 times in 8 months, Dell sent the re[pair people for repairs. Then crashed again the 4th time. I went through the roof with their so-called customer service, each time I spoke to a person in India. Well, they told me they would repair it again. Afer spending more than 3 hours of "HARD" discussions I said YOU WILL REPLACE THIS COMPUTER" (INITIALLY THEY SAID THEY WOULD ONLY RPAIR). They agreed to send me a new on. I wish I had pressed for the WIN XP (they said nothing). They really surprised me by sending the new XPS 410. I asked about extending my warranty (which expired in a month, they said NO you will have to purchase a new warranty. I did and the computer lasted 6 months and crashed twice in a week.

Recently I downloaded the SP1 and have had endless problems since. First it blew out most of my settings. And the color settings. I had a friend come over to EE-DO everything again. Even he does not like Vista.

[Evildave]

No, I'm pretty sure your computer went through and 'updated' security attributes. A time-consuming process that happens every time 'something changes' in Vista.

It didn't 'learn' anything about your email client.

[Tech4me]

h1. I'm sorri..but why Dell........???........
Alot of good machines out there.........You have my sympathy......

[OutToPasture]

I guess I am one of the lucky ones.

I also had a new Dell laptop that gave me a lot of grief, but Dell replaced it with a new one and this one works fine I equipped it to handle Vista, with lots of memory and a fast video card. I downloaded SP1 the day it was available and everything went fine. My machine is fast, much faster than my XP machine, and I have had no crashes or blue screens to date - touch wood.

Vista works fine for me.

[samspade]

i have an acer aspire with vista sp1 home premium, a dell inspiron with xp sp2 media center and two compaqs with vista basic one with sp1, one rtm. no problems.;)