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Vista SP1 Cleanup

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Just thought I would offer this tip. Once you’ve installed SP1 and everything is running well, AND you are absolutely 100% sure you do not want to uninstall it, AND you have backed up your system…
You can run this command vsp1cln.exe. This will allow you to reclaim significant disk space.
To do this press the Windows + R keys and type vsp1cln.exe in the run box.
or if you prefer using the command line:
press the Windows + R keys and type cmd then type vsp1cln.exe.

More info from Microsoft:

Windows Vista SP1 File Removal tool (Vsp1cln.exe). Vsp1cln.exe is an optional tool that you can run after you install SP1. This tool removes older versions of components that have been updated in SP1, which are stored during the installation in case you need to uninstall SP1 later. Saving these older components increases the amount of disk space that is used. Typically, you should run Vsp1cln.exe if you want to reclaim this disk space after applying SP1 and if you will not need to uninstall SP1. Note, however, that you cannot uninstall SP1 after you run this tool. You can use this tool both online and offline, but you must have SP1 installed and you must use the correct version of the tool. If you are running this file on an offline image, you should use the Vsp1cln.exe included in the Windows OPK or AIK. However, if you are running this file online (on a computer that you are booted into), you should use the Vsp1cln.exe file located at %windir%\system32\vsp1cln.exe.

Please do not whine at me if you run into problems and you haven’t backed up your computer!

Vista SP1 Is Out

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This is now available via Windows Update (it was only 66.9 MB on my machine via Windows Update).
Full file downloads:
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Five Language Standalone (KB936330) 434.5 MB
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Five Language Standalone for x64-based Systems (KB936330) 726.5 MB

If you don’t see it in Windows Update by days end, see:
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is not available for installation from Windows Update and is not offered by Automatic Updates

Updated release notes:
Release Notes for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (v3.2, 3/18/2008)

Also see the Windows Vista Team Blog post:
Windows Vista SP1 Released to Windows Update

eWEEK Survey: Vista? Gimme XP

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Interesting survey results by eWeek Microsoft Watch. Some selected quotes:

…The XP ecosystem is developed and holds back Vista adoption, with some businesses actually going back to XP from its successor. Many respondents wrote in the survey that their main reason for adopting Vista would be Microsoft’s ending XP support…
…Thirty-seven percent of all businesses—48 percent for those with 10-999 employees—do not plan to “implement” Windows Vista within two years. Thirty-four percent—40 percent for businesses with 1,000 or more employees—are unsure…
…Mac OS X is doing surprising well as primary operating system among businesses between 10 and 99 employees—15 percent!…
…The main driver for Vista adoption isn’t some newfangled feature but that the operating system comes preinstalled on the hardware (34 percent of respondents)…

Announcing the Official openSUSE Forums

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In order to provide a better service to the existing openSUSE Community and to our new users, we’re pleased to announce that suseforums.net, suselinuxsupport.de and the openSUSE support forums at forums.novell.com (the three largest English speaking dedicated SUSE forums) are joining forces to merge into the new official openSUSE Forums at forums.opensuse.org. Behind the scenes, a project team consisting of Novell employees, openSUSE Community members, and existing forums’ staff have been working on this project since the beginning of 2008. The new infrastructure will be hosted by Novell to ensure the highest possible quality of service.
Current plans are to migrate the existing active members of suseforums.net and suselinuxsupport.de into the official openSUSE Forums, simultaneously implementing Single Sign On for the whole openSUSE Community. We hope to make the transition as seamless as possible, and will go live Spring 2008. More information will be posted as available.
All in all, a big gain for the whole openSUSE Community!

openSUSE Announcment
Good news, IMHO.

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 chasing Apple's Safari

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I just couldn’t resist this one:
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 chasing Apple’s Safari
You Apple fanboys need to get a grip on reality. They never miss a chance to try and trumpet their supposed superiority. If you look here you’ll see that Safari has a 1.9% share of the browser market and 4.4% of the OS market. That means that even Mac users prefer using Firefox over Safari. It’s just a freakin’ browser guys.
Anyway, if you want to check out MS’s new IE 8 Beta hop on over P.T.’s site for screenshots and here for download links.
I’m gonna pass on this one as I’m already doing Beta testing for MS, I’m using Windows Vista. 😉