Vista KB
Saturday 1st March, 2008 14:58 Comments: 0
This issue applied to my laptop when I tried to install SP1 on Vista last month, but I recently ran into a similar problem with a friend's laptop (I say friend, I fancied her but she's now dating another guy and apparently only ever saw me as a friend) when I tried to install SP1 for her. Except I wasn't able to get it to install on her laptop, but I suspect it's possible that the installer was corrupt as I did copy it across over a wireless connection. SP1 shouldn't be that difficult to install, or should come up with better error messages. Thankfully the Vista + SP1 ISOs are available from Microsoft on MSDN and TechNet, which should make things less painful for anyone with retail keys (not quite so sure what happens for people with upgrade keys, perhaps they can use the key on a "retail" copy of Vsta + SP1?). Yes, it really has taken me ths long to write a blog entry about it! But it's not as bad as the 4 months it took me to post a birthday present to a friend (I say friend, but I accidentally said something a bit offensive and now she's no longer talking to me :S).