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
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