It has long been Microsoft's strategy: Give the people a 'free, illegal' copy of Windows, so that the people in the companies also request a Windows, because people love what they know. This will save the company costly training time and everyone is happy.
You are right. But the real reason therefore is that I had to change some flights since my destination Sri Lanka is partially flooded and about 1 mio citizen affected....have become unsheltered... Anyway I'll be off soon.
Will try to install SP1 for W7 Home X64, is this the latest MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.7.AND.SERVER.2008.R2.SERVICE.PAC K-1.RTM.X64.WAVE1.RIP.DVD-WZ.ZUKO ?
just wanted to give anyone interested a heads up: i installed: MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.7.ULTIMATE.RTM.WITH.SP1.X64.RETAIL.ENGLISH.DVD-WZT BUILD: 7601.17514.101119-1850 7601.17514.101119-1850_x64fre_client_en-us_Retail_Ultimate-GRMCULXFRER_EN_DVD.iso SIZE: 3,319,478,272 byte SHA-1: 1693B6CB50B90D96FC3C04E4329604FEBA88CD51 MD5: 56A26636EC667799F5A7F42F142C772D CRC: 8589EE18 NOTE: this is original M$ image. by W.Z.T and i did not have to install KB975778 to get disk check to work. take it for what its worth, but i believe its rtm.
Anyone else notice after installing SP1, and using disk cleanup, a folder is created in AppData > Local > Temp? it's a bunch of random numbers similar to a serial. i.e. on my computer its 27C0D0B7-A910-4A7A-A181-C9C32845E2E5. Inside the folder is a bunch of files: like dismhost.exe, dismcore.dll, etc. anyone know if this is normal or the purpose?
i had similar questions. before SP1 disk cleanup never created any folder in AppData/Local. But now after SP1, a folder is created everytime with 'dism.exe', etc. inside the folder. weird. either way, it's ok. my computer is much more responsive.
I installed the SP1 update yesterday, everything went pretty smoothly. Downloaded some of the post-sp1 fixes here and cranked through those as well. Did a DISM.EXE /Online /Cleanup-Image /spsuperseded when it was all done to clean up all the superseded hotfixes and that was smooth too. overall a great experience and can't wait for a final complete SP1 integrated ISO to be available from msdn. The only problem I really noticed: there were 3 new drivers, seem to be related to the new Remote Desktop enhancements, that failed to copy themselves into the /system32/drivers dir. synth3dvsc.sys (supposed to be at System32\drivers\synth3dvsc.sys) rdvgkmd.sys (supposed to be at System32\drivers\rdvgkmd.sys) tsusbhub.sys (supposed to be at system32\drivers\tsusbhub.sys) I did a manual search for these drivers and found them in the C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository in a subfolder. Once I manually copied them to my drivers dir & rebooted all seemed ok. Not sure if this is unique to my install or if everyone else noticed the same. Never would have even caught this probably if I wasn't so anal about monitoring my system, I noticed after running Autoruns (sysinternals) that these drivers were missing.
I looked in the directory you gave & I don't even have those files listed, does it matter which edition of Windows 7 your running, I checked my Home Premium installation (Updated using .exe file), I've got another computer running Ultimate (Clean Integrated SP1 ISO) but haven't checked that yet, will check later.
Well the dir I gave there wasn't complete, as I was saying the files were all in various sub-folders. e.g. I found synth3dvsc.sys in C:\ Windows\ System32\ DriverStore\ FileRepository\ synth3dvsc.inf_amd64_neutral_bccbc5fb46a05558
Yeah, I figured they'd be in a folder named after the files, but on my Home Premium installation none of those subfolders are present What edition are you running?
Well just checked my Ultimate installation, 2/3 of those files are present in the System32/drivers folder synth3dvsc.sys rdvgkmd.sys tsusbhub.sys