I'm gonna try this when I get home. Hope I get some gaming performance boosts along with Caty 8.12!

Does this turn your copy of Vista into a eval copy, I remember the beta of SP1 did something like that. Don't know whether to try this or not, as much as I want to. Any ideas on when the RTM will go live? I've just got my PC how I want it and cant be bothered going through another format.

alexp999Any ideas on when the RTM will go live? I've just got my PC how I want it and cant be bothered going through another format.

Release was planned to April, so February-March.

Any body install this yet. I wanna try it out but I don't wanna waste my time if it totally screws everything up.

im using the older version of the beta .113 i think and it does water mark your desktop though since this is a public beta it probably doesnt and no it wont f@#$ up your rig it installs fine ncie and stable.

Solaris17im using the older version of the beta .113 i think and it does water mark your desktop though since this is a public beta it probably doesnt and no it wont f@#$ up your rig it installs fine ncie and stable.

the last one didn't work for me. i have just formated my pc and when i finally get SP1 to show up in windows update after all the other updates are gone, i will install that and see if SP2 works after that:D

I get stuttering in CoD4.. Haven't tried other games yet but I am gonna uninstall anyways.

im using it works fine

Yea I had folding@home running thats why it was laggy. Its actually pretty good but I haven't noticed anything different.

Been on my pc since yesterday,and i cant even notice its there.

tiggerBeen on my pc since yesterday,and i cant even notice its there.

same here, at least it didn't break anything so far. Thats good news! :p

I just want "7" not a sp2 patch :)

Argh I can't make a new thread in the Software section..(everywhere else works).

Anyways... SP2 is giving me a 80070002 error, which I believe is an invalid data problem.

Looking at the CBS logs I find this:

Session: 29973691:1215353416 initialized.
2008-12-13 00:39:40, Info CBS Canonicalized file: C:\44ec9052378972caf0909e4523\f0293450f0e9be1aa9\windows6.0-kb948465-X64.cab Target dir: C:\44ec9052378972caf0909e4523\f0293450f0e9be1aa9 File: windows6.0-kb948465-X64.cab
2008-12-13 00:39:40, Info CBS SPI: Created path: C:\44ec9052378972caf0909e4523\f0293450f0e9be1aa9\windows6.0-kb948465-X64.cab
2008-12-13 00:39:44, Error CBS SPI: (CSelfExpander::InternalExpandFile:382)Checksum of downloaded file (0x1cbdd080) does not match expected (0x8f745e24) er=0xd
2008-12-13 00:39:44, Error CBS SPI: (CSelfExpander::ExpandFiles:227)Failed to internal expand file windows6.0-kb948465-X64.cab hr=0x8007000d
2008-12-13 00:39:44, Error CBS SPI: (CSPCInstallTask::Execute:880)Failed to expand windows6.0-kb948465-X64.cab hr=0x8007000d
2008-12-13 00:39:44, Info CBS SPI: Reporting Failed package event
2008-12-13 00:39:44, Info CBS Session: 29973691:1215353416 finalized. Reboot required: no


It looks to be simply a hash/checksum issue, however this happens with both the standalone and Windows Update; so if the content of the downloaded data is fine, why is the system looking for an address of 0x8f745e24?


I've been through all the usual methods of whiping temp files, and Windows Update cached files.


I'm tempted to just skip it and get back to setting everything up, since I just reformatted Vista; however it would have been nice to get SP2 out of the way, if there's no garuntee the final version will install properly.

Any thoughts?