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This blog was originally part of the blogs.ziffdavis.com site from May 2005 through June 2007 when the blog was moved to the Movable Type blog engine and hosted at blog.devsource.com/devlife.
The original blog was eventually shut down and I was given the posts so that I could host them on my own site.


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VS2005 SP1 installation: less than 45 minutes? (or less than 25!?)

After reading and blogging about the commitment involved in upgrading to Service Pack 1, I decided I better wait until I wasn't in the middle of something (or the usual 18 things.) Finally, today, I upgraded one of my boxes - my laptop.

I uninstalled Web App Projects and just to be safe, though I don't recall seeing the suggestion, Web Deployment Projects. I disabled my  anti-virus, made sure I had gobs of free hard drive space and went ahead and ran the install. It took only about 45 minutes! Who knows why! I even opened up and ran a few projects (Windows & Web).

I still have another computer that I need to update. But I'm considering updating that one to Vista first, which means a repave. So when I have lots and lots of free time, I'll do either one or both of those things to that box.

Update: I did apply the Service Pack to that other computer. This time it was under 25 minutes! 2gb ram vs 1.5 on the laptop and the processor is not much faster than the laptop.

posted on Sunday, January 28, 2007 12:48 PM