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#1 jram

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Posted 22 February 2011 - 10:25 PM

That's right peeps

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Posted 23 February 2011 - 02:25 AM

Installed mine tonight and it went smoothly (fingers crossed) It was 1,050mb on 64 bit system from the update.

http://windows.micro...vice-pack-1-sp1

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Posted 23 February 2011 - 06:11 AM

Just installed mine - 61.3 MB on 32 bit. Install time = 8 min including re-boot, plus download time.

Seems to work...

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Posted 23 February 2011 - 12:58 PM

Mine took about 40 min. and 2 reboots.. From what I'm reading, everyones is different..

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Posted 23 February 2011 - 11:44 PM

jram, on 23 February 2011 - 12:58 PM, said:

From what I'm reading, everyones is different..

I think that's right - partially depends on how up to date the computer is on MS updates, and, of course, 32/64 bit. I had only one re-boot.

Been trying today to download SP1 for my wife's laptop - their servers must be slammed. The download just stalls for 15 or 20 minutes so I cancel. I think I'll just wait a week or so - it's not like it's loaded with new goodies!

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Posted 24 February 2011 - 01:40 AM

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The download just stalls for 15 or 20 minutes so I cancel

there are a couple of times it seems like nothing is going on, at least on 64 bit.. It took me 15min to run disk cleanup today to get rid of backup files..

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Posted 24 February 2011 - 07:25 PM

Took 20 minutes to get rid 930 mb backup files all running smooth

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Posted 26 February 2011 - 11:04 PM

Ok - Finally got my wife's notebook (64 bit) updated. As I mentioned, the download would stall out for 30 min or so, so I "cancelled." Finally, about the fifth time the installation fired up and smooth sailing.

On her desktop (32 bit), the download went smoothly, install happened just as it should, then after the "Configuring..." screen, it hung at the "Shutdown" screen. I let it go for about 40 minutes, then did a hard reset. Booted up fine and completed the install.

The only file removal I've done is on my (32 bit) install - 640 MB according to Disk Cleanup. I don't recall that it took that long, but, it was deleting from a WD VelociRaptor. I want to leave the uninstall option on my wife's computers for a couple more days just in case.

Glad that I'm done - too much MS suspense for one week :1239: