What you need to know about Windows 7 Service Pack 1

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Woody –

So, are you saying that we should reboot 5 times and then install Win 7 service pack 1?

Or, do we install it and then do the 5 reboots?

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@Tim –

I’m still saying you should hold off on installing Win7 SP1.

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For those who must have W-7 SP1 right away, the procedure is to install, then reboot. This can mostly be avoided by using any System Cleanup Tool which clears Windows Prefetch as part of its cleanup routines, as far as I know. (If I am correct, even CCleaner has a setting to do this.) Then, at most two reboots would be needed to create new Prefetch data.

And I am not in any hurry to apply this Service Pack. Wait and see who screams, as usual.

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I had Win7 SP-1 automatically installed on my then new (as of three days) computer behind my back before I could set Windows Automatic Updater to “notify only” mode.

Except for un-renaming the “my documents” folder which I had given a more adult name, and the reinitializing of Windows Media Player back to Microsoft’s default “spy” settings, I have had no problems with Win7 SP-1. Fortunately I caught the Win Player change immediately.

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Woody thanks i am a new member with you my name is Francis and my wife and I were laughing and impressed and know we will be helping you and all the poor. Question is spent allot of money on labtop and wiresless printer plus router from linksys with modem from motorala. I have a broadband cable modem. I was told from this really hillbilly wantabee a tech that lied on all his certification. so anyway he told us that our cable modem was not good and to by motorla and he also set up home network with our pc and we cant seem to pin point it can you shed some light on this? Second is can i retrieve all music back from anysystm such as 2000 and xp and vista and put them into my window 7 beause i am having trouble with all this banans crud. I will donate look forward from your answer.

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@Francis Minore —

We have a Lounge here (actually at Windows Secrets Newsletter). No fee to join — just sign up and take advantage of this useful user-to-user forum. It’s at

http://www.windowssecrets.com

Follow the Lounge tab and sign up. Then post this question in the Networking area, and many folks with a lot of knowledge of Windows Networking will be available to help you work out your networking issues. I suspect there will be a lot of responses, as your issue has several obvious pieces which are relatively easy to correct.

Not enough room here to help, but meet us in the Lounge and I think we can get your network up and running pretty quickly. In the end you will probably have an extra cable modem, so I hope you kept the Motorola Modem receipt so you can return the extra Modem. Cable company modems are perfectly OK and quite secure.

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