Comments on: Have You Updated to Vista SP1?

By: ira m trager

ira m trager — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:59:07 +0000

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.

By: Bob Heckman

Bob Heckman — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:26:59 +0000

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.

By: richrx

richrx — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:12:20 +0000

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?!

By: Bill Holmwood

Bill Holmwood — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:14:24 +0000

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

By: Jimmie Summers

Jimmie Summers — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:52:22 +0000

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.

By: Dan Wilson

Dan Wilson — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:37:35 +0000

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

By: Dan Wilson

Dan Wilson — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:35:07 +0000

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.

By: woolf2k

woolf2k — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:49:05 +0000

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.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:38:05 +0000

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.

By: HBE

HBE — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:01:39 +0000

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

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