How to download Vista SP1 via BitTorrent

It seems as if Microsoft is impressed by the enormous critique they got for the delay regarding the release of Vista SP1. There are reports that the English version of SP1 will be available for Volume Licensing customers at the end of week. Later this month MSDN and Technet Plus subscribers will be allowed installing this precious service pack. If you don’t want to wait you can download it right now via BitTorrent . You should just be careful not to download an altered version containing malware. I will explain in this post how. First, you have to install a BitTorrent client if you don’t have one yet. There are many, the one I usually use is ABC . Next you go to one of the BitTorrent tracker sites such as Pirate Bay and search for “Vista SP1 RTM”. The file size should be 434,46MB . You will get several hits; take the one which has the most seeders (SE) and leechers (LE). To make sure that you haven’t downloaded an altered ...