Huge Vista update?

[daveza]

I noticed on a clients laptop there was a Windows update it wanted to download - of 961 Mb !

Anyone know what this would be ?!

 

[fxit_man]

a mistake?

 

[MrG]

Yeah, it wants to download Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 3 Beta..

Huge update for Windows Vista

Improves many things, I recommend u getting it!

 

[BiteMe]

sp1 is out to manufacturing as of about 3 weeks go. the full dvd, including 32bit and 64bit versions comes in at around 1.3gb.

windowsupdate can stagger roll-out of updates...it looks like his machine is one of the chosen ones
so i will hazard a guess it is sp1. all other vista patches come in at under 30mb.

 

[daveza]

Thanks.

So we have how many Vista pc's in the country all going to download a 1 Gig service pack?

I wonder if there will be a local Msoft mirror.

 

[Scooby_Doo]

yeah gonn hurt everyones cap.

 

[mic_y]

well there is a local mirror, if you have a WSUS server running anda avaliable to you... but i think I have the RTM SP1 on my HDD

 

[HavocXphere]

I wonder if there will be a local Msoft mirror.

M$ does not allow mirrors. Thats the official line anyway.

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

If you have done all the updates prior to SP1 then it should be a lot smaller.

MS updates can go through local afaik.

 

[Ivan...]

LoL..anyone considered that the guy never updated anything?

Office SP1 is 200mb
Vista Dreamscene is almost 200mb...and I'd guess the rest is all the other updates (I've checked my list of installed updates and it seems plausable)

 

[Robin Hood]

I noticed on a clients laptop there was a Windows update it wanted to download - of 961 Mb !

Anyone know what this would be ?!

Tell you what. To be on the "safe" side, if you dont seem to get any probs with the laptop with the current software, disable that download...otherwise go for it