Microsoft beta testers have been playing with a few major updates for Windows Vista for a few days now. It's not quite a full service pack release, but the Vista Performance and Reliability Pack and the Vista Compatibility and Reliability Pack do include quite a few bug fixes that should make Vista slightly more bearable.The packs should be available to all users through Windows update on August 14th. But if you can't wait (and if you don't mind downloading software from an unofficial source), some folks have taken it upon themselves to release the beta software to a wider audience a few weeks early.
There's a whole slew of features in the update, but here are a few of the most exciting:
- Resolves an issue where creating AVI files on Vista may get corrupted.
- Improves the performance in calculating the 'estimated time remaining' when copying/moving large files.
- Improves performance in bringing up Login Screen after resuming from Hibernate.
- Resolves an issue where synchronization of offline files to a server can get corrupted.
- Resolves an issue where a computer can lose its default Gateway address when resuming from sleep mode.
- Improves the performance when copying or moving entire directories containing large amounts of data or files.
- Improved reliability and compatibility of Vista when used with newer graphics cards in several specific scenarios and configurations.
- Increased compatibility with many video drivers.
- Improved reliability of systems that were upgraded from XP to Vista.
- Increased compatibility with many printer drivers.
[via GHacks]
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7-30-2007 @ 7:52PM
Dave Zatz said...
About six hours too late... just rolled back to XP MCE. ;)
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7-31-2007 @ 8:12AM
roma said...
Be careful with this one. After installation I was unable to copy, move and rename directories. "Directory does not excist" was the error. More users reported this. I rolled back my system because of this.
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7-31-2007 @ 9:23AM
ying said...
here about:http://yourpark.blogspot.com/2007/07/vista-performance-and-reliability-pack.html
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8-01-2007 @ 1:03PM
ahoier said...
hmm...good try. Too bad it didn't help much around here..lol.
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8-03-2007 @ 1:25PM
Sanke1 said...
Gave me good speed boost while copying
Download here
http://rapidshare.com/files/46069322/UnreleasedVistaPerformanceUpdates.rar
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8-06-2007 @ 9:38PM
ghostlupus said...
I wonder Vista service pack 1 will resolve the "Driver has stopped responding..." issue as I have an 88oo GTX card and could never use it within the Vista environment. (since 7 month) NIVIDIA is as unhelpful as usual.
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12-01-2007 @ 12:34PM
ghostlupus said...
email address was wrong.
I wonder if vista servive pack 1 can resolve the "driver has stopped responding...." I have an 8800GTX card and could never use this card within Vista. (since 7 month) NVIDIA is unhelpful as usual.
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