Two Vista Hotfixes Worth Considering

Hey guys. While I was browsing the Hardocp forums, I came across two hotfixes mentioned. Take a look:

938979 Vista Performance and Reliability Pack:
• Improves performance in resuming back to the desktop from the Photo and Windows Energy screensaver.
• Resolves an issue where some secured web pages using advanced security technologies may not get displayed in Internet Explorer on Windows Vista.
• Resolves an issue where a shared printer may not get installed if the printer is connected to a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 system and User Access Control is disabled on the Vista client.
• 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 a compatibility issue with RAW images created by Canon EOS 1D/1DS Digital SLR Camera which can lead to data loss. This only affects RAW images created by these two specific camera models.
• 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.
• Improves the performance of Vista’s Memory Manager in specific customer scenarios and prevents some issues which may lead to memory corruption.

938194 Vista Compatibility and Reliability Pack:
• Improved reliability and compatibility of Vista when used with newer graphics cards in several specific scenarios and configurations.
• Improved reliability when working with external displays on a laptop.
• Increased compatibility with many video drivers.
• Improved visual appearance of games with high intensity graphics.
• Improved quality of playback for HD-DVD and Blue-Ray disks on large monitors.
• Improved reliability for Internet Explorer when some third party toolbars are installed on Vista.
• Improved Vista reliability in networking configuration scenarios.
• Improved the reliability of Windows Calendar in Vista.
• Improved reliability of systems that were upgraded from XP to Vista.
• Increased compatibility with many printer drivers.
• Increased reliability and performance of Vista when entering sleep and resuming from sleep.


http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938194
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938979


The original topic is at

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1213723&highlight=hotfixes



I installed the fixes on ym desktop and my G1S. I do see some performance improvements in file transfer speeds and wireless connections. Also, the system goes to sleep even faster now and wakes up even faster. Infact, my laptop reconnects to my network from sleep without delay.


Edit: I sort of forgot there is an OS subforum. If deemed appropriate, could a moderator please move this to the OS subforum?

 

Sorry buddy there are already like 3-4 threads about this.

 

Oh sorry then. I tried a search for "hotfix", but it came back with too many results.

How do I delete this thread?

Thanks! Sorry for the spam.

 

Moderators can delete it. Maybe it is possible to merge these threads together?

 

sorry if this was also mentioned in the 'other' threads you guys mention.

but, were these updates available on windows update (i dont remember if i had downloaded them), if they wernt on windows update, why not? it seems like something that should be put up thier.

 

These hotfixes are not on Windows Upadte. Though they are final versions, they will be introduced with Vista SP1, but they can be downloaded and installed now without any problems.