Every morning I switch on my Vista Home Premium machine, in my study, then go downstairs 
for breakfast. So I do not see what happens at first bootup. When I return, some 
20 minutes later, the machine is ready to use. 

Except this morning: 10th April 07:00 GMT
When I returned to the machine is was updating 3 of 3; this took another few minutes; 
25 minutes to update. When I looked in System Restore all my recent restores have 
gone and my Kasperskey Anti-Virus went into full scan as it said my machine had not 
been scanned.

Right clicking on My Computer showed the OS as Vista Home Premium but no memtion 
of SP1. 

What was this major update, if not SP1, and why should it wipe all my restores and 
trigger Kaspersky to do a full scan?

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re: Major Vista upgrade but not SP1? Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 6:33 am Posted by Charlie Hadden (854 messages posted) Yesterday Windows did send out a update that was "Major: enough that it did the 1-2-3 stage routine after install. Not to worry. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Major Vista upgrade but not SP1? Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 8:08 am Posted by athegn (92 messages posted) Thank you for your reply. But why would it remove all my previous Restore Points? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Major Vista upgrade but not SP1? Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 8:30 am Posted by Charlie Hadden (854 messages posted) I can only guess on the restore points issue. I believe it would be an issue of corrupting the entire system if you tried to restore to a point before this update. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Major Vista upgrade but not SP1? Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 9:10 am Posted by Gerald Sodomka (6 messages posted) The exact same thing happened to me. I no longer have any restore points previous to April 8. The update also set off a antivirus scan (McAfee). I got the black screen after reboot for a very long time. More than a half hour. I finally did a hard shutdown, started up again, got a message saying it was updating stage 3 and to not turn off the computer. Everything finished OK. My computer doesn't show SP1. I have had Vista for a year and have done all the critical updates and many of the important updates. This is the first time there has been a glitch. Was it caused by my impatience? Or did my computer get stuck? It was very quiet before I did the hard shutdown. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Major Vista upgrade but not SP1? Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 12:33 pm Posted by Flissa (38 messages posted) Just read this post and had a fit of the vapours as I'd updated the same as you but it went OK and no problem re-booting and I thought no more about it. I've just checked my system restore points and they are all intact - phew. I use Avast anti-virus and it wasn't triggered by the updates. I wonder if I've just been lucky. On Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 11:46 pm, athegn wrote: >Every morning I switch on my Vista Home Premium machine, in my study, then go downstairs >for breakfast. So I do not see what happens at first bootup. When I return, some >20 minutes later, the machine is ready to use. > >Except this morning: 10th April 07:00 GMT >When I returned to the machine is was updating 3 of 3; this took another few minutes; >25 minutes to update. When I looked in System Restore all my recent restores have >gone and my Kasperskey Anti-Virus went into full scan as it said my machine had not >been scanned. > >Right clicking on My Computer showed the OS as Vista Home Premium but no memtion >of SP1. > >What was this major update, if not SP1, and why should it wipe all my restores and >trigger Kaspersky to do a full scan? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Major Vista upgrade but not SP1? Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 10:13 pm Posted by Charlie Hadden (854 messages posted) I just checked mine for grins and it had been turned off and all points gone. This even help me catch a potential problem. I am letting MS know right away. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Major Vista upgrade but not SP1? Friday, April 11, 2008 at 10:08 am Posted by Charlie Hadden (854 messages posted) Though I find that Quite disconcerting, I have seen that happen. I think there are at least a couple of people who gave up too early, but I may have done so also in those circumstances. Thank you for letting me know that even I need to be just a little more patient sometimes. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum