[access-uk] Re: Vista SP1
- From: Douglas Harrison <harrison1d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:37:34 -0000
Thanks for this very helpful reply, Tristram. In the circumstances I think
that I can safely
afford to defer the updating for a little time. I have been delaying the
switch to broadband
becausefor some time a move to a new house has seemed imminent, but I am
beginning to
think that I will have to take the plunge, even if it means going through the
process twice. If
not, your suggestion of getting a friend to download it to cD for me might be
an attractive
alternative.
Douglas
On 28 Mar 2008 at 16:38, Tristram Llewellyn wrote:
> VISTA SP1 is fine as far as I can tell, you won't really notice any UI
> changes just that one or two areas seem more snappy and the whole thing
> less error prone. If it is coming up under the Windows Update then your
> PC should take it fine. As for downloading on dial-up; I don't think so,
> the ISP would cut you off well before you finnished. Even so it would be
> less than 400MB through the Windows Update mechanism anyway. I do not
> Microsoft think will be doing those free CDs again although I could be
> proved wrong. In the four or five years since then broadband takeup has
> been large enough to obviate the need for anything similar.
>
> However the update is available as a stand alone update. If you have a
> friend who wouldn't mind downloading it and burning to CD for you, then
> you could install the service pack from CD.
>
> The SP1 is not as urgent an update in the security sense as it was for XP
> service pack 2 anyway so you can rest somewhat more easily, it is however
> worth having though.
>
> Regards.
>
> Tristram Llewellyn
> tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Technical Support
>
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Douglas Harrison
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