I’ve installed Windows Vista SP1 today. Unfortunately, the two first tries were unsuccessful, due to a message received after a few restarts (right after a "Configure Updates – stage 3 completed 100%" message and allowing log on after that) indicating an obscure error with this number: 0x800F0826.
After searching on the Web for the issue there was nothing that could be used.
I contacted Microsoft Support on their chat line (it’s free), and… surprise… they actually DID help me! The trick was to start 2 services in Control Panel Services, and set them to Automatic: Windows Event Collector and Windows Module Installer. After that SP1 has successfully installed.
I hope it helped other people like those from these forums or blog entries:
Good post, I had a similar experience (http://www.somelifeblog.com/2008/07/fixed-vista-sp1-error-0x800f0826.html) with Vista, but ran into a couple of other issues before it uncovered the problems with the services not starting up. By chance, was your machine a Dell computer as well?
No, my machine was an Acer notebook, so I think this is not brand-related (or may be related to more than 1 brand otherwise).
I’ve answered here: http://sdolha.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!4121802308C5AB4E!6100.entry.
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Thanks Sorin, helped me install SP1 on a Acer 5310 that was putting up a fight against SP1 lol!
Thanks Sorin! I’ve tried everything and this finally did the trick!
Thanks came across this site whilst searching for a fix for 0x800F0826 which i was getting whilst trying to installing Windows Vista SP1, Your solution worked straight away. Laptop – Acer Aspire 5920G
Thanks