Vista SP1 RC through Windows Update!

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Install Windows Vista SP1 RC through Windows Update!
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC is available through Windows Update. Experience the WU based Vista SP1 installation by following 4 simple steps.
Windows Vista SP1 RC distributed through Windows Update will be applicable to Windows Vista machines that are running on any of the 36 languages supported by Vista RTM.
If you already installed the Service Pack to your machine by using the standalone package, you must uninstall before you scan Windows Update for Windows Vista SP1.
Systems running on Windows Vista RTM require as many as three updates before SP1 can be installed. These updates are permanent to your Windows Vista systems. Windows Update will detect your system configuration and offer the prerequisite packages that are applicable to your system. For details, please see the instructions below.

Download: Download details: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC Public Availability Program

***Remember this is Pre-Release BETA Software and may have bugs as well as fixes***


Installation Tutorial:
How to Install the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) Release Candidate 1 (RC1)
 
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It will probably be longer than 2 hours. I uninstalled through windows and got the SP1RC_WUHack for installation.
 

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  • CPU
    qx6700
    Motherboard
    intel badaxe2
    Memory
    6 Gig Corsair ddr2 800
    Graphics card(s)
    Nvidia 9600GT 512
    Sound Card
    OB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    BenQ24 Princeton19
    Screen Resolution
    1920X1200 1280X1024
    Hard Drives
    8 X 500 Gig 3X 1TB RAID 0 and 2X 500 GB
    PSU
    Rosewill 950
    Case
    Thermaltake
    Cooling
    Chilltec
    Mouse
    Kensington Expert
    Keyboard
    MS Natural Ergonomic 6000
    Internet Speed
    DSL
You will be doing this for about 6 hours or so, you will get about 3 big downloads with the last being SP1, you'll think that each one is SP1 as I did, but you'd be wrong. It seems like you can't just get the last download, you have to wait a while. I've had 2 computers return WU errors when I tried to get the final DL too soon. Don't be concerned with the error just DL it later.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    qx6700
    Motherboard
    intel badaxe2
    Memory
    6 Gig Corsair ddr2 800
    Graphics card(s)
    Nvidia 9600GT 512
    Sound Card
    OB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    BenQ24 Princeton19
    Screen Resolution
    1920X1200 1280X1024
    Hard Drives
    8 X 500 Gig 3X 1TB RAID 0 and 2X 500 GB
    PSU
    Rosewill 950
    Case
    Thermaltake
    Cooling
    Chilltec
    Mouse
    Kensington Expert
    Keyboard
    MS Natural Ergonomic 6000
    Internet Speed
    DSL
wow 5 computers must suck...luckily i only have to do two...just waiting on the sp1 update to show up...all other updates are done..then the next computer...ahh
 

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    Windows 11 Workstation
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    Ryzen 9 5950X
    Motherboard
    Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Formula
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    Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO Black 64GB (4x16GB) 3600MHz AMD Ryzen Tuned DDR4
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    ASUS AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 16GB ROG Strix LC OC
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    Creative
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    3 x27" Dell U2724D & 1 x 34" Dell U3415W
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    Samsung 980 Pro 1TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 4.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive
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    1500W ThermalTake Toughpower
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    ThermalTake Level 10 GT
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    1.9GHz Intel Core i5-4300U (dual-core, 3MB cache, up to 2.9GHz with Turbo Boost)
    Memory
    4GB
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    12" Multi Touch
    Screen Resolution
    2160 x 144
    Hard Drives
    128GB
    Mouse
    Logitech
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    Internet Speed
    350 Mb/s
It's kind of interesting. The 1.73Ghz mobile Pentium laptop loaded DL's wirelessly and slowly, but given the delay at the end, which is probably due to demand more than anything else, ends up being as quickly updated as the QX6700.
 

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System One

  • CPU
    qx6700
    Motherboard
    intel badaxe2
    Memory
    6 Gig Corsair ddr2 800
    Graphics card(s)
    Nvidia 9600GT 512
    Sound Card
    OB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    BenQ24 Princeton19
    Screen Resolution
    1920X1200 1280X1024
    Hard Drives
    8 X 500 Gig 3X 1TB RAID 0 and 2X 500 GB
    PSU
    Rosewill 950
    Case
    Thermaltake
    Cooling
    Chilltec
    Mouse
    Kensington Expert
    Keyboard
    MS Natural Ergonomic 6000
    Internet Speed
    DSL
It's the same thing, just in one easy to install package.
 

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System One System Two

  • Operating System
    Windows 11 Workstation
    Manufacturer/Model
    doofenshmirtz evil incorporated
    CPU
    Ryzen 9 5950X
    Motherboard
    Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Formula
    Memory
    Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO Black 64GB (4x16GB) 3600MHz AMD Ryzen Tuned DDR4
    Graphics card(s)
    ASUS AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 16GB ROG Strix LC OC
    Sound Card
    Creative
    Monitor(s) Displays
    3 x27" Dell U2724D & 1 x 34" Dell U3415W
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 980 Pro 1TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 4.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive
    PSU
    1500W ThermalTake Toughpower
    Case
    ThermalTake Level 10 GT
    Cooling
    Enermax Liqtech 240
    Mouse
    Logitech Performance MX
    Keyboard
    Surface Ergonomic.
    Internet Speed
    350 Mb/s
    Other Info
    WinTV NovaTD HP CP1515n Color Laser Sony BD-5300S-0B Blu-ray Writer Microsoft LifeCam Cinema APC 750i Smart UPS
  • Operating System
    windows 10
    Manufacturer/Model
    Surface Pro 3
    CPU
    1.9GHz Intel Core i5-4300U (dual-core, 3MB cache, up to 2.9GHz with Turbo Boost)
    Memory
    4GB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    12" Multi Touch
    Screen Resolution
    2160 x 144
    Hard Drives
    128GB
    Mouse
    Logitech
    Keyboard
    yes
    Internet Speed
    350 Mb/s
I just installed it on my vista, vista works the same but i could get it installed on the second try .on the first try it took one and half hours to install it when the install is finished update failed screen poped up said "update failed reventing changes" (I first thought it was a joke)and of course i waited one hour more. i realised that sp1 doesnt support ultimate language packs when i uninstalled all my language packs it installed perfectly. i havent recognised any major difference. Dreamscene used to appear on windows update even when there was nothing to update that disappeared . Do you know if there are any updates since SP1 RC V.668 because WU havent found any since the sp1 installation???
 

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After going back to Mac and making my PC strictly a gamer, I installed 32-bit for maximum gaming compatibility. After installing SP1RC, I saw something very interesting for all the 32-bit users out there...

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4G on 32-bit!
 

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larryk said:
After going back to Mac and making my PC strictly a gamer, I installed 32-bit for maximum gaming compatibility. After installing SP1RC, I saw something very interesting for all the 32-bit users out there...

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4G on 32-bit!
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I thought that too... download the gadget that shows cpu/memory used (the one for dual/quad cores). Its still only 3.x gb. Also I believe task manager will only report 3.xgb too. Hence why I moved to 64 bit.
 

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Yea I got my hopes up too. Pre-Sp1 it was report 3.3gb of ram, then post the full 4. Unforutunately due to the limitations of 32-bit OS's, I knew that wasn't the case :(

Ah, well. Glad we got that cleared up though.
 

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Here's something I found that is interesting. It seems the limitation is related to implementation of the kernel, not just the fact that it is 32-bit. For instance, Leopard (OS X 10.5) uses both 32 and 64-bit libraries simultaneously. There is no need to be strictly one or the other. It seems that is the choice of Microsoft...

From "Inside Windows 2000," by David Solomon and Mark Russinovich.

All of the Intel x86 family processors since the Pentium Pro include a memory-mapping mode called Physical Address Extension (PAE). With the proper chipset, the PAE mode allows access to up to 64 GB of physical memory. When the x86 executes in PAE mode, the memory management unit (MMU) divides virtual addresses into four fields.

The MMU still implements page directories and page tables, but a third level, the page directory pointer table, exists above them. PAE mode can address more memory than the standard translation mode not because of the extra level of translation but because PDEs and PTEs are 64-bits wide rather than 32-bits. The system represents physical addresses internally with 24 bits, which gives the x86 the ability to support a maximum of 2^(24+12) bytes, or 64 GB, of memory.

As explained in Chapter 2 , there is a special version of the core kernel image (Ntoskrnl.exe) with support for PAE called Ntkrnlpa.exe. (The multiprocessor version is called Ntkrpamp.exe.) To select this PAE-enabled kernel, you must boot with the /PAE switch in Boot.ini.

This special version of the kernel image is installed on all Windows 2000 systems, even Windows 2000 Professional systems with small memory. The reason for this is to facilitate testing. Because the PAE kernel presents 64-bit addresses to device drivers and other system code, booting /PAE even on a small memory system allows a device driver developer to test parts of their drivers with large addresses. The other relevant Boot.ini switch is /NOLOWMEM, which discards memory below 4 GB and relocates device drivers above this range, thus guaranteeing that these drivers will be presented with physical addresses greater than 32 bits.

Only Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server are required to support more than 4 GB of physical memory. (See Table 2-2.) Using the AWE Win32 functions, 32bit user processes can allocate and control large amounts of physical memory on these systems.
 

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PAE switch didn't do anything when I enabled it. I followed the instructions to the tee from MS's website. Still showed 3.3gb, no increase in benchmark scored. 64-bit + 4gb FTW
 

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The article makes it sound like you need a special kernel for PAE support. My guess is that if the 32-bit versions ship with the special kernel, they are not using it by default.
 

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