SERVICE PACK 1 UPDATE INSTALLED . . . BUT NOT!

I'm trying to update my Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1, in
order to then upgrade to Windows Ultimate with Service Pack 1. Without
Service Pack 1 installed before going to Ultimate, it will clean install and
I do NOT want that!

I went through all the steps to get the Service Pack 1 installed using
Windows Update, including installing all kinds of recommended and optional
driver updates, etc. I went back through my history when the Service Pack 1
did not show up and apparently, it HAS BEEN installed (several weeks ago) on
my compter and it was SUCCESSFUL. However, when I check my system
properties, it does not register that it is operating with Service Pack 1 and
when I try to upgrade, the upgrade disk tells me that I am NOT operating with
Service Pack 1.

Did it download an .exe on my computer somewhere and I need to RUN it? Has
anyone got any ideas?
HELP!! PLEASE!!! THANK YOU!!!

UPDATE regarding this situation . . . I did not wait long enough to have the
ACTUAL Vista Service Pack 1 update be available to install. What I installed
a couple of weeks ago was the Microsoft Office Compatability Pack Service
Pack 1. So, couple of errors . . .
1) in my frustration, I failed to recognize that was an OFFICE Service Pack
and not a WINDOWS Service Pack, and
2) after making all outstanding installs, I needed to give the ACTUAL
Windows Service Pack more time to be available! All the help information on
the Windows Vista site said that after I updated my computer completely, the
SERVICE PACK would automatically pop up and be ready to load. I was too
hasty.

The Service Pack 1 is ready to load, everything happened the way the
literature said, so in this case, THANK YOU, MICROSOFT!

(Maybe for lack of confusion in the future, for those of us who are hasty to
believe something will go wrong everytime we try to do something new to our
computers, WINDOWS updates can be numbers and OFFICE updates can be letters?
- Just a thought if anyone from Microsoft is ACTUALLY reading this!)

"Brandi" wrote:

> I'm trying to update my Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1, in
> order to then upgrade to Windows Ultimate with Service Pack 1. Without
> Service Pack 1 installed before going to Ultimate, it will clean install and
> I do NOT want that!
>
> I went through all the steps to get the Service Pack 1 installed using
> Windows Update, including installing all kinds of recommended and optional
> driver updates, etc. I went back through my history when the Service Pack 1
> did not show up and apparently, it HAS BEEN installed (several weeks ago) on
> my compter and it was SUCCESSFUL. However, when I check my system
> properties, it does not register that it is operating with Service Pack 1 and
> when I try to upgrade, the upgrade disk tells me that I am NOT operating with
> Service Pack 1.
>
> Did it download an .exe on my computer somewhere and I need to RUN it? Has
> anyone got any ideas?
> HELP!! PLEASE!!! THANK YOU!!!

And all in the space of less than 2 hours, too!

Brandi wrote:
> UPDATE regarding this situation . . . I did not wait long enough to have
> the
> ACTUAL Vista Service Pack 1 update be available to install. What I
> installed a couple of weeks ago was the Microsoft Office Compatability
> Pack
> Service Pack 1. So, couple of errors . . .
> 1) in my frustration, I failed to recognize that was an OFFICE Service
> Pack
> and not a WINDOWS Service Pack, and
> 2) after making all outstanding installs, I needed to give the ACTUAL
> Windows Service Pack more time to be available! All the help information
> on
> the Windows Vista site said that after I updated my computer completely,
> the
> SERVICE PACK would automatically pop up and be ready to load. I was too
> hasty.
>
> The Service Pack 1 is ready to load, everything happened the way the
> literature said, so in this case, THANK YOU, MICROSOFT!
>
> (Maybe for lack of confusion in the future, for those of us who are hasty
> to
> believe something will go wrong everytime we try to do something new to
> our
> computers, WINDOWS updates can be numbers and OFFICE updates can be
> letters?
> - Just a thought if anyone from Microsoft is ACTUALLY reading this!)
>
> "Brandi" wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to update my Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1,
>> in
>> order to then upgrade to Windows Ultimate with Service Pack 1. Without
>> Service Pack 1 installed before going to Ultimate, it will clean install
>> and I do NOT want that!
>>
>> I went through all the steps to get the Service Pack 1 installed using
>> Windows Update, including installing all kinds of recommended and
>> optional
>> driver updates, etc. I went back through my history when the Service
>> Pack
>> 1 did not show up and apparently, it HAS BEEN installed (several weeks
>> ago) on my compter and it was SUCCESSFUL. However, when I check my
>> system
>> properties, it does not register that it is operating with Service Pack 1
>> and when I try to upgrade, the upgrade disk tells me that I am NOT
>> operating with Service Pack 1.
>>
>> Did it download an .exe on my computer somewhere and I need to RUN it?
>> Has
>> anyone got any ideas?
>> HELP!! PLEASE!!! THANK YOU!!!

On my computer, the Service Pack 1 installation appears to go all the way
through to restarting and then I get a message that says it did not install
and it goes back through and takes out all the changes! I have tried several
times to install it but with same result! In my history it says the Service
Pack 1 update failed. What to do?

Error message when you try to install Windows Vista Service Pack 1:
"Installation was not successful" or "An internal error occurred while
installing the service pack"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947366

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BethC wrote:
> On my computer, the Service Pack 1 installation appears to go all the way
> through to restarting and then I get a message that says it did not
> install
> and it goes back through and takes out all the changes! I have tried
> several times to install it but with same result! In my history it says
> the Service Pack 1 update failed. What to do?