Win7 SP1 released to public

That's good to hear! With a cpu activity indicator here I hardly see it move except when placing a good load for resources like opening a VM or other larger app. No problems to report since the 2/23 install went well here.

My PC has been off the road for about a month and I just got it back working yesterday (with much help from this forum's members)
Anyway, as you can imagine there are a lot of updates I've missed including SP1.
I am running Windows 7x64 and have a custom theme installed. I removed that by reverting to the standard W7 theme in Personalization.
When I tried to install SP1 it failed.
Any ideas anyone?
Cheers, John

jdcarroll said:

Based on the feedback from others who were having the same issue and the fact that it was simply not going work otherwise, I did a clean install of win7, prevented it from downloading any other updates except sp1, loaded other updates and am back to running like it was supposed to.
jd

That's a good manner as i did go through some troubleshots install with SP1 wave1 leaked & SP1 RTM (both returned me the exact same Error Code 80004005), but did a stand-alone SP1.exe install, instead the Windows Update one. Running just fine since my march 2nd clean install....IE9 installed some days afterward.

I think I have posted this elsewhere but cannot find it.

I had two issues one my friends machine wouldn't download SP1 because of an error that showed up as FFFFFFFFFF something or other - turned out to be a virus Kaspersky TDSS Killer found a rootkit - got rid of it and SP1 no problem.

My own machine wouldn't do without downloading the System Update Readiness Tool http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947821 did it and no problems with SP1.

Install Windows Update KB2454826 from Windows Update before trying the stand alone exe package.

That one update has been a cause for concern but is required to see a good install of SP1. If you restored a system image at some point prior to SP1's release one solution mentioned before is to open an elevated command prompt and type in the "mountvol /e" command, press enter, exit the command prompt, and restart the system first before the next attempt.

After trying to find out why the beta then RC refused to go on the 64bit host here the error prompt with the RTM release lead to an MS page then seeing 3 or 4 options depending on situation. Having restored an image just before the beta release that information wasn't available at the time.

As for the update that one is a definite however with or without the readiness tool. The other advise to minimize all startup processes including any protections like antivirus, antispyware, any firewall will be a help as well. You disable those temporarily until SP1 is on.

Have posted this elsewhere - can't find where but...

Just done a clean up for a friend and yep SP1 wouldn't download found an error with FFFFFFF in it - virus. Did a Kaspersky TDDS Killer and it found a rootkit got rid ofit and SP1 doenoadedwithout a hitch.

My own machine wouldn't download it until I put in the M$ System Readiness Update Tool.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947821

Hey look I knew I'd posted it somewhere - I'll have to shut a couple of my machines off - apologies to all!