You may receive the following error when installing Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2: 0xC0000022 (STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED) This can be due to McAfee Host Intrusion Protection being installed on the system. To workaround this problem...

During the installation of Service Pack 1 for Windows 7/2008 R2 you might encounter the following error: 0x800f0904 - CBS_E_MORE_THAN_ONE_ACTIVE_EDITION This can be due to the release candidate failing to uninstall properly. The \Windows\Logs\CBS...

I know I've mentioned CheckSUR a lot around here and its a really vital tool for troubleshooting servicing problems within the OS. I'm happy to report that the utility has been updated to work on Service Pack 1 installations for Windows 7 and R2. I...

Windows 7 Service Pack 1 may fail to install properly on systems which have had the Driver Sweeper utility from Phyxion run against the Windows image. You could possibly encounter errors 0x800f0a13 or 0x800f0826 in your \Windows\Logs\CBS.log file that...

When installing Service Pack 1 on Windows 7 installations, you may enounter the following error code in the \Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log: 0x8004a029 The log snippet will look similar to the following: 2011-02-21 18:56:58, Error CSI 000006e1 (F) Done...

Just a quick post this morning, the Windows Team blog has more information on SP1 including another, easier way, to remove the service pack files from your machine. You can access it here: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2011...

You might encounter an issue during the installation of SP1 for Win7/R2 where the installer exits with: 0x800f0a12 This is due to the automount policy for your machine being set to disable. We block the service pack installation in these cases because...

An often asked question is how to reclaim space after a service pack installation. We've talked about VSP1CLN and COMPCLN for Windows Vista and 2008. Now that SP1 is out, it's time to talk about how to do this on Win7/R2. It's a DISM command now: DISM...

I've seen this a couple of times already, enough that I thought we should have some quick content on it. When you attempt to install the standalone package for Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 you might get the following error: 0x800f081f <--This maps...

We currently have a known issue with the RSAT tools ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=7d2f6ad7-656b-4313-a005-4e344e43997d&displaylang=en ) for Windows 7 SP1 installations. You will get an error when you attempt to install...

Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 SP1 has shipped. Here’s the bottom line: Volume Licensed, MSDN and TechNet subscribers get access February 16 . All customers get access February 22 through Windows Update and direct download The...