Stray Thoughts

The very first service pack for Windows 7 should be popping into your Windows Update right around now. There are few areas that might cause some issues. Here’s what to watch for.

• Whitelisting / Blacklisting: Whitelisting software may not have checksums yet to verify all the files that are modified by the service pack.
• Firewalls: Third party firewalls may find that some of the low level hooks they use have changed.
• Disk Encryption: In particular full disk encryption that modifies the boot process may find that some of the changes it did are undone by the SP install
• Custom hardware: If you are using drivers other then those that are included in Windows 7 (or 2008 R2)
• Dual boot : Linux dual boot might cause some issues

Resources :

• TechNet Install Issues Page
• Uninstall procedure for SP1
• Service Pack Blocker Toolkit
• Fix for Linux dual boot issue

Tags: windows 7, 2008 R2, SP1