Installing Service Pack 1 ruined everything

Britton30 · 23 Mar 2013

nilank said:

cbiweb said:

nilank said:

SP1 does ruin a good running system.

SP1 had no ill effects on my good running system at all.

A good running system will drink SP1 like a glass of cold water on a hot summer day, and be refreshed and ready to run. A bad running system will be fubar'd by SP1. Just sayin'.

Maybe that's specific to you. In my case, installing SP1 on a clean, freshly installed Windows has always ruined it, not on a single machine, but a number uncountable. But using the ISO having SP1 integrated (the microsoft one) doesn't have any problems.

Nope, it has worked for me several time, installing the SP1 update, that is. The odd ones are the systems that are "ruined".

nilank · 23 Mar 2013

You might be right.

NoelDP · 24 Mar 2013

I suspect that I've installed SP1 on 20+ systems - and not had a problem with any of them, bar one, which I knew was going to be a problem anyhow because of various corruption that was present (I ended up clean-installing with an SP1 disk).

One pretty guaranteed way to have a problem installing SP 1 is ever to have had Norton installed, and not uninstalling it with the Removal Tool before attempting the update. Later versions of Norton are less prone to the problems, but if your machine came with RTM, and had Norton preinstalled, it's asking for problems.

UsernameIssues · 24 Mar 2013

When the OP comes back to this thread - I would sure be interested in knowing if the files were found. Hopefully, it was just a video thing and some shortcuts, files and folders were moved off screen. Maybe the OP will start reading at post #2.... or maybe not.

Indianatone · 24 Mar 2013

NoelDP said:

I suspect that I've installed SP1 on 20+ systems - and not had a problem with any of them, bar one, which I knew was going to be a problem anyhow because of various corruption that was present (I ended up clean-installing with an SP1 disk).

One pretty guaranteed way to have a problem installing SP 1 is ever to have had Norton installed, and not uninstalling it with the Removal Tool before attempting the update. Later versions of Norton are less prone to the problems, but if your machine came with RTM, and had Norton preinstalled, it's asking for problems.

I have installed SP1 months ago on my 6 computers and at least 20 virtual machines and have had absolutely no issues whatsoever.

nilank · 24 Mar 2013

Seems it's not just me: Google

Britton30 · 24 Mar 2013

Me either. Google

nilank · 24 Mar 2013

Britton30 said:

Me either. Google

As far as I can see, no result says it's good and improves performance.

UsernameIssues · 24 Mar 2013

I guess that the OP should have anticipated this type of discussion. Maybe he can wade thru the post to find the ones seeking to help him recover his files.

nilank · 25 Mar 2013

UsernameIssues said:

I guess that the OP should have anticipated this type of discussion. Maybe he can wade thru the post to find the ones seeking to help him recover his files.

OP said:

Browser bookmarks, teamspeak bookmarks/preferences, wallpaper, every single desktop icon that isn't a shortcut to a game.

He "lost" his wallpaper

? Browser bookmarks? They can't come back, if it's really gone, it gone. Something must have gone wrong with his users/<u_n>/appdata folder where such bookmarks/preferences are mostly stored, including user settings, during the update. And he/she has already been instructed on how to get his desktop material back. Seems he/she him/herself is not much interested. Just another one time poster.