Vista Service Pack 1’s 573 suspended
PC World says” It looks like Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista is (almost) ready for prime time. SP1 contains a whopping 573 bug fixes and patches that have accumulated since Vista first shipped in early 2007, plus some performance improvements. I advise you to get it–but only after the wrinkles are ironed out.”
Microsoft says a few programs, including The New York Times Reader and Zone Alarm 7.1 security suite, can’t start or work properly with Vista SP1. Most affected companies now have updates to fix the problem.
However, an update you have to install before installing SP1 has a glitch in it that causes some PCs to restart endlessly. Microsoft says the problem affects only “a small number” of the more than 100 million Vista users. At press time, the the update had been suspended.
The faulty update, numbered 937287, was part of Microsoft’s mid-February Patch Tuesday downloads. If you have automatic updating turned on and your Vista PC is behaving normally, the update likely installed just fine on your machine.
If it didn’t, you’d know by now. Microsoft offers help at 866/727-2338 to users whose PCs react badly; a fix at Windows Update should be available by the time you read this.
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