Released today. Feeling lucky ?
Get it here.. (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/resultsForCategory.aspx?nr=50&sortOrder=Descending&sortCriteria=Date&period=30&stype=ss_nd&sterm=All+Categories)
Thanks for the heads up :)
From what I can gather it is just a mash up of all the hotfixes released so far.
that will be why its not showing on updates for me, probably like a checkpoint thing for ppl reinstalling
Quote from: sulky_uk;277529that will be why its not showing on updates for me, probably like a checkpoint thing for ppl reinstalling
Its only available for download at the moment, it will not be on automatic update till the end of June apparently.
Mine came through on Windows Update, but I do use manual connect.
Vista Ultimate 64bit.
Half a gig download.
Quote from: Liberator;277540Mine came through on Windows Update, but I do use manual connect.
Vista Ultimate 64bit.
Half a gig download.
same as me but i still dont get it.......
Mine popped up on Update yesterday. Not yet DL'd or installed.
All installed here with no problems. From WU.
Well done Microsoft you bunch of incompetent gits:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968279
So because I did a custom install using vLite thus removing heaps of the unnecessary baggage that Microsoft install without your consent I am unable to install SP2.
God these people annoy me!!!!!!!!!
I think that's a bit unfair. Yes, they do install some stuff that you might not want on your system, so you use 3rd party software to do an install without it. Fair enough, I have no issue with you doing that. But it's 3rd party software, and thus MS can't take into account what it may have done to your system. If it has stripped out something that SP2 requires to operate then it's the fault of the people who made vLite for allowing you to strip that out, not the fault of MS that their improvements to the OS require something which they expect to be there but which you have removed. I'd much rather get this message than have an install of SP2 get half way through then die, completely hosing my system.
For what it's worth, you would have experienced the same problem with Vista SP1 if you had installed base Vista, then vLite, then done an SP1 install, instead of using vLite on an already SP1'd version of the OS. See this page for more details, it's suggestions might work with SP2 as well as long as you've not actually removed something it needs:
http://www.vlite.net/servicepack.html
still cant see it on update:eyebrow:
checked version using
start>run>winver
and it came up with vista 64 sp1
so i dont have it
Quote from: sulky_uk;277633still cant see it on update:eyebrow:
checked version using
start>run>winver
and it came up with vista 64 sp1
so i dont have it
I'm pretty sure they do a staged rollout so their download servers don't get swamped.
after the 5th manual update try i can now get it so dl'ing....now
Quote from: Carr0t;277603I think that's a bit unfair. Yes, they do install some stuff that you might not want on your system, so you use 3rd party software to do an install without it. Fair enough, I have no issue with you doing that. But it's 3rd party software, and thus MS can't take into account what it may have done to your system. If it has stripped out something that SP2 requires to operate then it's the fault of the people who made vLite for allowing you to strip that out, not the fault of MS that their improvements to the OS require something which they expect to be there but which you have removed. I'd much rather get this message than have an install of SP2 get half way through then die, completely hosing my system.
I don't think it is unfair AT ALL. If something hasn't been installed there is no need to update it therefore the SP install should detect it as not installed and continue to the next thing in the list. MS can do that with Office SPs - if I haven't installed all or some of Excel I can still run an Office SP update; it doesn't tell me to install excel before it will proceed!!!!!