[dba-Tech] [dba-OT] Vista Ultimate

Bummer. Welcome to the club. Did you send in the response to Microsoft
Tech Support when it prompted you to?  They eventually contacted me
and guided me through getting my SP 1 update to work. Did you have any
sort of Antivirus on it?  That was the thing that ended up killing my
update and I had to use the McAfee uninstall and then did the unistall
in some "stand alone update" mode they guided me into.

GK

On 12/15/08, Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software
<rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:
> Well, it finished, said the upgrade failed, didn't say why, restored Vista
> Home Basic.  I have no idea why.
>
>
> Rocky Smolin
> Beach Access Software
> 858-259-4334
> www.e-z-mrp.com
> www.bchacc.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gary Kjos
> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 7:39 AM
> To: Off Topic
> Cc: List
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] [dba-OT] Vista Ultimate
>
> Good luck with it. I had the SP1 update fail a few times on me after getting
> all the way through to saying it was 100% complete but then something went
> back and it had to restore it to preupdate status which took another hour.
> It's the trying to preserve your stuff that maybe takes it that long. If you
> had just loaded from scratch it would have probably been a lot faster. And
> the SEVERAL HOURS estimate is maybe a worst case possiblity in case you had
> less than speedy hardware.
>
> GK
>
> On 12/15/08, Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
> wrote:
> > Upgrading my Vista Home to Vista Ultimate today - primarily so I can
> > run VPC on it.  It's at the major upgrade phase now and at the bottom
> > of the dialog box it says "Your upgrade may take SEVERAL HOURS to
> > complete" (emphasis mine).
> >
> > WTF? Several hours?  What could they be doing for several hours?
> >
> > That said, the Vista OS has been pretty solid so far.  Not sluggish.
> > O2K7 is a pig but Vista isn't as bad as I thought it would be.
> > Although It's on my backup box -primary development machine is still
> > XP - so I'm really not doing much with it.
> >
> >
> > Rocky Smolin
> >
> > Beach Access Software
> >
> > 858-259-4334
> >
> > www.e-z-mrp.com <http://www.e-z-mrp.com/>
> >
> > www.bchacc.com <http://www.bchacc.com/>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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