Vista Sp1 Application Compatibility Update Fixes Black Screens Of Death

[Guest Reimar]

Latest news from TechNet about the Black Screen of Death:

Vista SP1 Application Compatibility Update Fixes Black Screens of Death

With the release of the gold version of Service Pack 1, but also with the maturing of the software and hardware environment orbiting around the Windows client, Windows Vista's compatibility level has continually increased.

Still, Microsoft is very much hammering away at the operating system with its evangelism wheels in motion to gather additional support for the platform. On top of the compatibility improvements delivered via SP1, the Redmond giant continues to kick the platform up a notch with the introduction of Application Compatibility updates. The latest release in this regard went live on August 12, Microsoft's traditional Patch Tuesday.

The August 2008 Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Application Compatibility Update is being distributed through the Windows Update infrastructure, but is also served through the Microsoft Download Center. The end purpose of the update is to provide resolves to specific application compatibility problems with the latest Windows client and server operating systems.

In this context, Vista RTM, SP1 and Windows Server 2008 have been updated to play nice with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5. As far as the two solutions are concerned, Microsoft indicated that it has improved their functionality for the two operating systems.

On top of this, the Redmond giant has also hard blocked One Key Recovery 5.0, a piece of software which caused black screens of death for Vista RTM to Vista SP1 upgrades. "The update puts a hard block on the application. A hard block prevents an application that is incompatible with Windows Vista from running on the system. Microsoft puts a hard block on a non-Microsoft application only when the manufacturer of the application gives its consent," the company informed.

One Key Recovery 5.0 was incompatible with Windows Vista, and in this sense the reason for the black screen of death which followed the reboot after an SP1 installation on top of Vista RTM. The fix is only provided for Vista, although Windows XP SP3 is also affected. "'Windows Vista Application Compatibility Updates are cumulative. Each update contains all the improvements that were included in previous application compatibility updates," Microsoft added.

The August 2008 Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Application Compatibility Update is available for download via the following links:

Update for Windows Server 2008 (KB954336)

Update for Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems (KB954336)

Update for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition (KB954336)

Update for Windows Vista (KB954336)

Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB954336)

[dotcom]

You mean the greatest software system in the world has bugs?

I don't believe it.

[Guest Reimar]

You mean the greatest software system in the world has bugs?

I don't believe it.

Unfortunate for you I didn't wrote that report!

Also unfortunate for you I never told that something is perfect or claimed to be bug free!

Cheers.

[MarkBKK]

You mean the greatest software system in the world has bugs?

I don't believe it.

Unfortunate for you I didn't wrote that report!

Also unfortunate for you I never told that something is perfect or claimed to be bug free!

Cheers.

No, you didn't, Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor at Softpedia did. (http://news.softpedia.com/news/Vista-SP1-Application-Compatibility-Update-Fixes-Black-Screens-of-Death-91918.shtml)

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But none of that applies to you, does it Reimar?

Don't tell us ... you got it in an email, like all the others.

[dotcom]

I think he is on a commish from Microdeathstar

He doesn't have a sense of humour either.

[MarkBKK]

I think he is on a commish from Microdeathstar

He doesn't have a sense of humour either.

Oh, I don't know. Anyone who says that MP3s sound better when read from a DVD than when read from a CD must be having a laugh ... mustn't they?

[JetsetBkk]

Ah-haa! So when people say they've never had a blue screen of death with Vista, it's because it's black.

[Guest Reimar]

I really don't understand why you guys see so many times something what never was written?! And I also try but can't understand why you guys want to know better what experiences I had in the past until right now?!

And a sense of humor? I think humor is disappearing if reading negative words from some person mainly! How the rules name it? Trolling?!

Than the self made language teachers who like to show their knowledge and that they better on languages than others which is true or maybe not?! Special if the other party isn't a native speaker!

Beside of that, someone who has all time of the world to check every sentence in every post for an available copyright but not for everybody, just for moderators only!

You see, you guys maybe good or not, maybe ok or not, maybe have a lot knowledge or not and so on, who knows who are you in the real world? You measuring and judging without to know the real person! And you guys jumping if you get measured and judged on the same way!

We have an Speech in Germany which means in English: You never do to other what you don't like others do to you!

Think about that and not forget that maybe sometimes the day come that you need one of person you had measured and judged.

Cheers.