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Have You Updated to Vista SP1?

by sscott721 on March 24, 2008 at 8:32 pm · Comments
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Microsoft released SP1 for Windows Vista this past week and the reviews seem to be mixed.  Some reviewers say SP1 improves various system performance tests, and others say it does the opposite.  I installed Vista SP1 on my main desktop PC last week, and the installation process was flawless.  As far as any “real world” performance issues, I haven’t noticed anything either way.  On my system, I have had no noticeable performance gains or slowdowns as others have reported.

I haven’t installed SP1 as of yet on my HP laptop, as the SP1 betas I have used kept constantly BSODing my machine.  I was never able to narrow down the culprit, but I am a bit wary about installing it again on this computer.  I might fire up Windows Update tomorrow morning and give it another go, so we will see how that works out then.

Otherwise, my question to the community is have you, Vista users, updated to SP1 yet?

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What are your thoughts?

tony bishop - March 26, 2008 @ 12:29 am

Just like my installation of Vista (over XP), SP1 has shown not one problem. I have noticed some non-quantifiable increase in snapiness, things just open quicker. File saving, moving, and backing up, especially to external drives is definitely and very noticeably faster.
Search, which is somehow rarely seen in reviews, but for me is the ‘killer’ reason to switch to Vista, is noticeably faster too.

HBE - March 26, 2008 @ 5:01 am

I’ve installed Vista SP1 on my Dell laptop which went flawless and runs without any problem.
BTW.. I’ve never had any problem or slowdown experience with Vista.
Installation of SP1 takes quite some time though.

I’m noticing some speed-improvements at all Explorer-related items (opening folders, copying files, deleting, renaming etc) but thats about it.
No slowdowns as well though.

cheers,
HBE

Paul - March 26, 2008 @ 5:38 am

I waited a while after XP’s service packs were released and I will do the same with Vista SP1 and the same goes for XP’s SP3 when it it released to the general public. Unless there is some pressing reason I need to roll the dice as a “real world beta tester” I’ll just wait it out and continue to work at learning Linux for the long haul.

woolf2k - March 26, 2008 @ 8:49 am

performance has increased but so has the base memory footprint. It’s !1GB now while it was around ~650MB before.

I still have the same intermittant graphics artifact on the screen as before which didn’t exist on XP.

overall, it’s a step forward. I wouldn’t want Vista without SP1.

Dan Wilson - March 26, 2008 @ 2:35 pm

I installed Vista SP1 on the day it went public, on my Toshiba Laptop.
The pre requisites alarmed me as the listed device issues were listing
devices in my laptop. But did do the updates required first to resolve the issues and the update went without a hitch.

Bootup seems longer, but application loads are indeed faster.

Beyond that, I see no noticeable changes.

Dan Wilson - March 26, 2008 @ 2:37 pm

My laptop is upgraded to 4G. Vista as installed saw only 3G. After installing SP1, The system now sees 4G.

Jimmie Summers - March 26, 2008 @ 5:52 pm

I have two computers home built one for my wife an one I use.
I downloaded the sp1 for vista 32 bit an installed it on both
computers about 40 minutes each with no problems.Both are
vista ultimate.

Bill Holmwood - March 26, 2008 @ 7:14 pm

I installed SP1 for Vista on my Packard Bell laptop running Vista Home Premium.
Like Chris it installed without any problems and there is no noticable difference so far.

I must comment though on the IE8 Beta; lockergnome.com constantly crashes the program! So now I now use Opera to view the site. (And leave this, my fist comment).

Happy cvomputing folks!
Bill H

richrx - March 26, 2008 @ 8:12 pm

I have Vista on 2 eMachine econoboxes for my kids. SP1 installed flawlessly. Before installing, I could see & access their computers on the home network from my XP machine. I could not see the rest of the network from either of the Vista machine (other than their own computer on the network). I had printed out the lengthy network troubleshooting guide & was going to get around to fixing this but it was not a high priority because I could access their computers. After SP1, both Vista machines see the network, no problem. Go figure?!

Bob Heckman - March 26, 2008 @ 9:26 pm

I recently installed the Vista SP1 on my desktop and the installation went flawlessly. I have noticed some speed increase in IE7, Firefox, and Safari. So far there is one problem I’ve noticed and that is my “Printscreen” does not work. Other than that little problem, I’m satisfied with SP1 until I encounter other issues.

ira m trager - March 27, 2008 @ 10:59 am

i havent really noticed any significant changes. it might be booting a bit faster and ie7 might be opening a bit faster. vista is still a hog. when i boot up its using about 70% of physical memory. ie7 is still a resource hog and that was supposed to have been fixed.

What do you think?

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