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Previously available only through subscriptions to MSDN or Technet, Microsoft today released Windows Vista Service Pack 1 on their public download site. Some are also saying they are now seeing it available through their Windows Update, despite Microsoft having said they wouldn’t push the update through that channel until mid-April. (Note: As described on the Windows Vista Blog, you can pull it through Windows Update, but it isn’t being pushed yet.) Keep reading →

Consider the following scenario:

• On a Windows Vista-based computer, you download some files from a network share to an offline folder.
• During this process, some network problems occur, such as a loss of the wireless connection or network congestion.

In this scenario, the files that you download are corrupted.

The corrupted files have the same file size and the same metadata as the original files on the network share. However, when you perform a binary compare, you find the files do not match the original files.

When you try to download updates from Windows Update on a computer that is running Windows Vista, you may receive the following Stop error message:

STOP 0×80070246
ERROR_ILLEGAL_CHARACTER

Additionally, the following entry may be logged in the WindowsUpdate.log file:

Automatic Updates Failure Content Install
		  Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error
		  0x80070246: "Name of Update"

Note: The WindowsUpdate.log file is in the following location:

%Windir%\WindowsUpdate.log

When you try to download updates from Windows Update on a computer that is running Windows Vista, you may receive an error message that resembles the following:

Error 0×80070003
The system cannot find the path specified.

Additionally, an entry that resembles the following may be logged in the WindowsUpdate.log file:

2007-03-17 12:14:47:639 6128 a54 Handler Post-reboot
		  status for package Package_for_KBxxxxx~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~~6.0.1.2:
		  0x80070003. 2007-03-17 12:14:47:639 6128 a54 Handler WARNING: Got
		  extended error: "POQ Operation LoadDefaultUserHive"

Note: The WindowsUpdate.log file is in the following location:

%Windir%\WindowsUpdate.log

Note: The entry in the WindowsUpdate.log file references an extended error that occurs when the system tries to load the Default User Hive.

Consider the following scenario:

• You download a compressed (zip) file from the Internet to a computer that is running one of the following operating systems:
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
  • Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2
  • Windows XP Service Pack 2
• You save this file to a disk that is formatted by using the NTFS file system.
• You extract the files from the compressed file by using the Extract All Files wizard.

In this scenario, the modified date of the extracted files changes to the date that you extracted the files.

Note: This problem does not occur when you use a third-party tool, such as WinZip, to extract the files.

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