To date, Microsoft has released Windows Vista SP1 Beta to a small number of testers. Although this is an internal test, many people have been able to download the corresponding SP1 Beta standalone installation package on peer-to-peer networks. But do you know that you can actually get SP1 beta updates directly from Windows Update? And what is needed is not a small hack.
Open any text editor and enter the following text:
@echo off
reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\VistaSp1 /v Beta1 /t REG_SZ /d a2c3c14a-9586-4d37-9aaa-79fbd64069d2 /f
reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\VistaSP1 /v Beta1 /t REG_SZ /d a2c3c14a-9586-4d37-9aaa-79fbd64069d2 /f
echo Vista SP1 registry key has been set. Please check for updates in Windows Update.
pause
Save the above text as a *.cmd or a *.bat file, and the main file name can be specified arbitrarily.
Right-click "Run as Administrator" on the batch file and get a UAC prompt to skip directly.
Enter Windows Update. A straightforward and easy way to do this is to focus on entering update in the Start menu "Start Search" box and enter it. Click "Check for Updates", a few minutes later will appear an update KB935509, download and install this update. After installation, restart the computer as required.
Go to Windows Update, check for updates, download installation updates KB937287 and reboot.
Go to Windows Update again, check for updates, download installation updates KB938371 and reboot.
The third time you get into Windows Update, you can see the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 beta in the update list, and now you can start downloading and installing SP1 Beta!
Here, you need to highlight the benefits of installing SP1 beta through Windows Update:
Update installation SP1 beta and download offline standalone installation package reinstall, the update capacity of only hundreds of MB, and offline stand-alone installation up to several gigabytes; second, the update obtained SP1 does not have offline independent installation package redundant multilingual data; Three, for the above reasons, Installation with an update is less time-consuming and efficient than installing a standalone installation package.