[dfr200764]

think natural paranoia is understandably creeping in here ! Probably stems back from the days when people had problems after installing WinXP SP2 !! My wife's PC had the several BSOD's from what I remember.

[serverguy]

I did just look on the MS website for SP1 and couldn't immediately see the statement you were referring to. The standalone installer was very easy to find and download though.

I have installed it multiple times from the standalone, and it is fine. I would have thought if there were dependencies which it needed they would be packaged with the installer.

But yes, I have had no problems installing it as have other people.

Originally Posted by Ozzie82

I shouldnt think there would be any major issues installing it first before getting the other updates. But a friend of mines alerted me that there could be some trouble with sp1 if installed 1st and also then i backed that up by reading a MS doc about installing sp1

In MS website it states,that its recommended to install 3 important updates before installing sp1.

In my case,i didnt get sp1 for 2days ,through auto updating. it gave me all the other updates first which included the 3 so called important updates before it released sp1 for my computer.

If you start from new o/s installed and get the first updates from MS then we wont get sp1 first,other updates have to be in place before they send you sp1.

Not sure if its that important really,but if the auto updating procedure gives sp1 last then there must be some truth in there statement.

That last post of mines was copied & pasted from MS site ,wasnt my words ,i just thought i would paste it just to show maybe of possible issues by installing sp1 first before getting the other ones

Has anyone installed sp1 first manually? Id like to know if its ok to install first,cos waiting on it to come through auto updates is a pain

regards

[Ozzie82]

Hi serverguy

Thanks for clearing that up for me, cos lo i was tempted to just install first , between ,my mate in my ear and then reading stuff like this, made me think twice about slapping it on and then getting other updates, but if you and others have done so and without no problems then next time i have too , i will do same thing as you guys.

Sry about the mixup with MS doc on there site, i ment that it was a doc about MS sp1 i read on another site,but from what i can remember is that they got that info from MS , maybe its in there site somehwere.

Anyhows, have a read at this and let me know what ya think, this is more or less what i was reading ,not the same site

The prerequisite updates part under (The Windows Update Experience) 1/4 down the page

http://www.tweakvista.com/article39220.aspx

regards

Ozzie

[serverguy]

No problems.

That article you referenced is very old and for a release candidate of SP1. It is no longer of any importance because the final version of SP1 fixed those dependency problems.

Originally Posted by Ozzie82

Hi serverguy

Thanks for clearing that up for me, cos lo i was tempted to just install first , between ,my mate in my ear and then reading stuff like this, made me think twice about slapping it on and then getting other updates, but if you and others have done so and without no problems then next time i have too , i will do same thing as you guys.

Sry about the mixup with MS doc on there site, i ment that it was a doc about MS sp1 i read on another site,but from what i can remember is that they got that info from MS , maybe its in there site somehwere.

Anyhows, have a read at this and let me know what ya think, this is more or less what i was reading ,not the same site

The prerequisite updates part under (The Windows Update Experience) 1/4 down the page

http://www.tweakvista.com/article39220.aspx

regards

Ozzie

[Ozzie82]

Ahh ok

sry for confusion, still love to know why it takes so long to auto update to sp1 through auto updating. It has some kinda process they go through before they release sp1 for my computer and i only get it after i get single updates which are around 132mb or something

Cheers for info serverguy

I will now have no 2nd thoughts about installing it 1st

regards

[serverguy]

Originally Posted by Ozzie82

Ahh ok

sry for confusion, still love to know why it takes so long to auto update to sp1 through auto updating. It has some kinda process they go through before they release sp1 for my computer and i only get it after i get single updates which are around 132mb or something

Cheers for info serverguy

I will now have no 2nd thoughts about installing it 1st

regards

I expect the auto update servers are still pretty busy pushing it out to millions of other computers. It will come eventually.

[Ozzie82]

ahh ok yup, sounds about right,well i shall not go through that process anymore, cos hanging about waiting for it can be abit of a pain

cheers again