Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate (SP1 RC1), installation problem
Everyone that is using Microsoft Vista has undoubtfully noticed several properties which have a negative effect on prouctivity. Since I work with producing websites Vista’s slooow filemanagement has probably been the most irritating of them all. Therefore, SP1 is very welcome update, even if it’s only a Vista SP1 RC1 (i.e. more or less final will some risk of smaller bugs).However, installtion of Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate (Sp1 RC1) has proven to be a bit of twitchy. At http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=1992&SiteID=17 you can find several examples of problems that might arise. One of those is that the installation process, which is divided into three steps, might hang. The round process incidator (the “donut”) spins although nothing is actually happening, while is says that the installtion in progress and that the computer should not be restarted. After an hour without any noticable HDD-activity it’s quite obvious that something is wrong.
For my part this happened at the very end of the last step (3 of 3), at “100% finnished” to be exact. After resetting the installation began again starting at step 3. After a couple of minutes Vista started normally and everythings seems ok. Similar cases can be found at Microsoft’s forum.
For all of you that have been nervously waiting for the installation of Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate (SP1 RC1) for hours with no apparent progress should be able to restart. After all, it’s only an RC and there’s not that much else to do. But don’t be in a too big hurry. The installation of Vista SP1 RC1 is stated to about 90 minutes. This is about what I’ve experienced, even though my computer is top of a line (Intel Quad, Raid0, 8GB Ram).