Win7 SP1 released to public

Night Hawk · 25 Feb 2011

bobtran said:

lafargeotte said:

bobtran said:

Wifes laptop (x86 HP) hung at 95% but again completed after a little persuasion.

What did you do - that is where wife's laptop s stuck!

Force cancel (and restart), re-apply the update in windows update if necessary. It appears as if it actually completes the download and/or install without completing the countdown on the updates screen (almost as if the update screen is hung).

That's still a bit odd to be seeing it hang on multiple systems. With the beta and later RC the hang would occur at the 99% mark and then suddenly see the reverting changes message when those attempts failed on the 64bit here.

With the final version the error page now shows corrective measures that when used on the second attempt saw an immediate success without any hang at the end. The SP took a 50min. total before the restart/config began but that was it.

You likely needed to take a few preparation steps missed out on resulting in the hangs you saw in order for the smooth finish to be seen. I still have another 64bit Home Premium desktop to see updated with everything including SP1. That should go a bit faster however typically only seeing light use at that.

PwnFrnzy · 26 Feb 2011

I used Windows Update a few hours ago and got SP1 installed.
One thing that happened was after the install when I pressed "Restart" it did the normal "Logging off" and "Configuring Updates" stuff, but it stayed at "Shutting down" for an hour to I held the power button for 5 seconds to turn off the computer and pressed the power button again to turn it on and it continued on.
Any reason why it hung like that?

brianzion · 26 Feb 2011

PwnFrnzy said:

I used Windows Update a few hours ago and got SP1 installed.
One thing that happened was after the install when I pressed "Restart" it did the normal "Logging off" and "Configuring Updates" stuff, but it stayed at "Shutting down" for an hour to I held the power button for 5 seconds to turn off the computer and pressed the power button again to turn it on and it continued on.
Any reason why it hung like that?

thats a long time but you should not really turn the pc off while windows updates

bunty13 · 26 Feb 2011

just a quick note b4 i go to bed ive really had enough of the computer today.. i installed the sp1 last night and shut down only to find when i got up this morning i had a bootmgr is missing msg and after trying repair and rollback more than a few times i had to format after a fresh install and with only a few drivers on i reinstalled sp1 and rebooted and it had a bs and had to repair or roll back again atm i cant open windows update to see if sp is installed or not but i dont think my pc is happy regardless i think you may have more than a few bugs with this sp1

Fayla · 26 Feb 2011

There most likely is. Prior to public release the beta testers were only complaining about uninstall options for it. Seems that going from beta to full release, a lot of problems have crept in.

I had to reformat just to get it installed, as it kept failing to install and not even the readiness pack resolved the issue. The system was fully patched and clean (so said MSE2 and MBAM) and a SFC scan reported no issues. The SP also bugged out my WU, so I had to use a reset bat thing to get it back to normal working order.

I've been reading the problem threads about SP1 here and I remember seeing someone say that it won't install if you have certain drivers (like Intel display drivers-- I have an Intel Display chip+drivers), which is kind of bull.

bunty13 said:

i think you may have more than a few bugs with this sp1

gregrocker · 26 Feb 2011

Knew there must be changes with WMP since I had to set it up again. Sure enough it now has codecs to play MP4's. Still waiting for it to play Real files so I can get rid of that junk.

electrotune1200 · 26 Feb 2011

Haha. Real Player. The program that defies all instruction.

unifex · 26 Feb 2011

gregrocker said:

Knew there must be changes with WMP since I had to set it up again. Sure enough it now has codecs to play MP4's. Still waiting for it to play Real files so I can get rid of that junk.

VLC is supposed to play Real files, as well as almost anything else on the planet. That's the only player that I use. No way I will allow that Real junk on my machine

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dreamer · 26 Feb 2011

oh i had a horrible time downloading and installing sp1.Opened my laptop in morning and tried downloading through WU,laptop hanged up multiple times till i had to forcibly switch it off.When restarting laptop it showed installing updates for close to 2 hrs still no success.Finally in desperation i un installed avast anti virus and switched off my firewall and voila sp1 got installed in few minutes

bunty13 · 26 Feb 2011

bunty13 said:

just a quick note b4 i go to bed ive really had enough of the computer today.. i installed the sp1 last night and shut down only to find when i got up this morning i had a bootmgr is missing msg and after trying repair and rollback more than a few times i had to format after a fresh install and with only a few drivers on i reinstalled sp1 and rebooted and it had a bs and had to repair or roll back again atm i cant open windows update to see if sp is installed or not but i dont think my pc is happy regardless i think you may have more than a few bugs with this sp1

when i got up this morning it took a good 5 mins to boot into windows then another 2 to load ie when looking at my windows update it says the sp1 failed to install but i know it has done a rollback as my virus protection that i installed the same day is also not installed now im trying once again to install sp1 but now it is just saying downloading and its stuck at 0% and i have not installed my virus protection yet as i saw that was an isue for some