Vista SP1 - Released To The Public PDF Print E-mail

Service pack one for vista was released to the general public through windows update on Tuesday. You can also download SP1 from the links below if you would like a local copy. There are allot of improvements with service pack one with the main emphasis on performance and reliability. Service pack one will also support newer types of hardware. Also allow plenty of time for the upgrade as I have seen the upgrade take over an hour on a few machines.

Download Links
SP One For Windows Vista

SP One For Windows Vista 64 Bit

 
Vista SP1 Also Upgrades The Display Subsystem PDF Print E-mail

There has been allot of talk about what Vista SP1 bring to the table. If you have time check out this article written by Long Zheng that talks about a couple more interesting improvements that SP1 makes.

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080213/vista-sp1-power-efficiency-improvements/

 
Firsthand Experience With Vista SP1 PDF Print E-mail

I was able to apply Vista SP1 to one of my workstations tonight. I was actually pretty impressed with the whole process after reading about some peoples experiences. Hopefully Microsoft can find a fix with the current issues with some of pre SP1 updates. Check out the following link to read more about it. (http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,142651-pg,1/article.html)

 

The machine I installed SP1 has an Intel Quad Core with four GIG of ram. The total install took about 75 minutes to complete. Below I have included some links to Microsoft which talk about SP1. Feel free to stop by the forums and let us know if you run into any problems installing SP1. I hope that everybody has as good of luck as what I had!

 


SP1 Information Links
Things you should know before installing SP1 - Technet
Overview of sp1 pdf download - Microsoft
Vista Service Pack One Links - Technet

 
Vist SP1 Performance Results Mixed PDF Print E-mail

It sounds like vista SP1 will be coming out sometime in the next month. PCWORLD has an interesting article out talking about what they have seen performance related since installing service pack 1.

PCWorld Service Pack One Article

 

 


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