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

Oops, I meant the install was run in Stand Alone Update mode.


GK

On 12/15/08, Gary Kjos <garykjos at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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