[Blake Pender]

There've been a thousand and one ways to get your hands on Windows Vista SP1 or various beta versions over the past few months. But Microsoft is set to post the manual installer for Vista SP1 on March 18. If you're not in a hurry, you can wait until April when the update will be available through the Windows Update service.

[FalseAgent]

not very keen to upgrade to it actually, the search is removed from the start menu. Not start search, the search in the start menu that brings up explorer search.

[endrit10]

Theres a little Vista Hack called SearchBack and it puts it back there.

Can't remember the link.

[BossPlaya]

One question only If I choose to download and install Vista SP1 on the 18th, will I install the real deal or is it just another beta version?

[Blake Pender]

Seems to be the real thing now

Microsoft promised that it will be released in 'Mid-march' so this date has to be the real thing

If not... Sue them!

I'm being sarcastic there

[BossPlaya]

Lol, I noticed that! Thanks for the info.

[adrynalyne]

Its not that hard to edit the registry for the function to work again.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\find

Locate LegacyDisable

Remove it.

[Fraxtil]

Ah, good! SP1 hasn't been installing correctly for me, so this should do it right.

[WhistAler]

Thanks for the news.
I've already installed the SP1 through the registry hack, and it is the real deal!

[djkalice]

you can always bring the explorer search by pushing F3! no?!

[ThunderROM]

March 18 release date has been confirmed by Amazon.com

This post has been edited by ThunderROM: 16 March 2008 - 11:28 PM

[BinaryChaos]

Oh boy can't wait to slipstream...

[The Silent Warrior]

Screenshot of Amazon.com listing Vista with SP1.
The release date is March 19, 2008