New Vista Service Pack 2 release

[Chris D]

Looks like Vista Service Pack 2 is out now. Big 350MB or so download, we'll see if it does anything.

[Alaric]

I've seen some reviews of SP2 and some folks claim it actually freed up some space on the hard drive by removing redundant services/programs from previous upgrades. I loaded it on the laptop I'm using now , and it may boot a little faster , but otherwise I haven't seen any big changes. No problems either , so far.

[Chris D]

Well, the first thing it's done for me is screw up my sound card on my laptop. I get MEGA distortion with all audio sounds now. I'll have to re-install my sound driver.

[Alaric]

Oh , hell! Sorry to hear that. I've had the occasional odd occurrence , but I blamed it on my ineptitude with a touchpad. It's actually kind of funny that I think I'm too old for "new" technology. I can't function without qwerty and a mouse! I really can't tell if my issues are incompetence or Vista related.
Vista is on the wife's laptop , and I would have preferred XP , but that's probably a case of "the devil I know".

[Chris D]

Ugh... I don't know if it's because of Vista SP2, but after installing it, my laptop suddenly started going downhill. First the audio got major distortions, where it was unintelligible, then the computer started locking up. I had to roll back the computer to an uninstall point previous to SP2. The audio was still messed up, so I reinstalled the audio driver, and all is good now.