Vista SP1 "preview release candidate"

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2217388,00.asp

 

Not interesting. I'm sure it's already on torrents.

 

i'm interested.

 

I was just saying that it wasn't interesting for me. I didn't mean any offense to anyone who's interested.

 

Then dont post here calvin.

I cant wait for SP1

 

I got on that pre-beta ship before, and really it didnt do anything worthy, and most all of the updates are available in windows updates anyways.

 

Why don't you stop posting? I'll post all i want.

 

Calvin, maybe you should post on every thread that doesn't interest you, saying that you're not interested.

 

LOL. Well, i was kind of half joking about it already being on torrents but no one got my lame joke.

 

Have it, installed it, good stuff. Faster boot/shut down

 

Going to do a reformat of my old Vista Ultimate x86 partition with this newer SP1 build.

I'm currently using build 6001.17036 on my x64 drive. Nothing but good things I could say right now but you just have to try it out for yourself..

SP1 is will hopefully change a lot of viewpoints for those who dislike Vista atm.

 

...Today I turn on Vista and I'm getting lots of BSOD. Last time it was because I had bad drivers for my 3G Modem Express Card, but now I'm stumped. I have no idea whats causing them. I'm gonna uninstall SP1 RC and see what happens, but this is strange after a day of smooth working.

 

Im just going to wait for the official release. Dont see the point is messing up a current fine OS install with beta SP's.

 

The point is that SP1 even in current beta stage is incomparably faster and more responsive.

Also memory usage returned to normal, especially with games.

I cant bear waiting for several months on the horribly performing RTM
Also have not noticed any bugs with latest SP1 beta anyway.

 

I uninstalled SP1RC and no more BSOD, why me :-(

Yesterday it did start up and shutdown alot faster. It even BSOD today without the modem...I havn't checked my desktop yet today.

 

uh oh...bsod's are no good

 

My Vista install is quick and responsive anyway . Perhaps would be easier if you went back to XP if Vista is so bad for you.

Just you hear people doing clean installs the following day as they start to get BSOD's after using these Beta SP's.

 

lol, clean installs a waste of time, just go into safe mode and uninstall it. When it bugs you to update again, just hide the update, head ache gone, plus when a new build comes out I can just install it without having to crack Vista again.

 

Get to know about Vista SP1

http://download.microsoft.com/downl...indows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta Overview.pdf

 

I beleive I was clear enough.
a) On my system, Vista with latest SP1 is as fast as XP, with all added advantages of Vista. What the point and why its "easier" to going back to XP? Especially since SP1 can be installed and removed without total programs reinstallation.
b) I have not noticed any bugs/BSODs whatever. So I presume there are other people with equally fine experience. At least, it worth a try, defenitely worth it. If you will start having problems with SP1 beta, its pretty easy to uninstall it.

You can think that your present RTM Vista performs adequately, but this because you didn't see how it performs with SP1

 

Hope it doesn't leave it to that.

 

i just hope the sleep/resume issues get resolved

 

where to download this current rc sp1?? thanks

 

Not so easy to uninstall if it corrupts your vista OS

You cant really generalise that if your system is fine then everyone else’s is lol. Be nice if it did work like that haha

I guess if your not dependent on your laptop for business hence needing stability and its just for for internet surfing, homework and messing about then I would probably try this SP aswell.

Good luck playing around with it.

 

That what System Restore & Volume Shadow Copy is for. Though I would say that in current testing stage (almost RC) corrupting the OS is not more probable then in RTM version.

Dont put your words in my mouth. I only said that if it works nicely for me, for *some* people it can works nicely too, so it worth a try at least to see if it will provide a benefit.

Windows and stability are contradictory terms. Again, thats what backup software are for.

 

Ok calm down Ingvarr, well done you got your opinion across, your entitled to one.

 

Thank god. I was worried that SP1 was going to end up just being the Kernal update with all the past Vista updates packaged together, ala SP3 for XP, but it doesn't sound like I have to worry about that! I'm all for getting a huge performance increase without having to upgrade my hardware, too!

Why did Microsoft even release this last year? Seriously. It's not like they needed to beat Leopard to the market a full buggy year ahead. Everything has just largely been a mess, and it's only given the OS a terrible reputation. Though I don't know if anything would have made software and hardware driver makers actually be fully prepared for the release, as we have seen already, as nothing really does that like actually having people using the new OS. But on the other hand, my dv9000t's video drivers from HP (I do actually use laptopvideo2go's) are still like the 98 series from Nvidia, with no good outlook that they're going to update them anytime soon. Unless SP1 makes some compatibility issues warrenting an upgrade... *ironically crosses fingers for problems with drivers and SP1.*

 

Well "kernel update" can be quite a major update

At least its quite responsive now and it does not eat memory for means unknown (especially visible in games). At least it swaps less, comparable to XP.

Also they seem to properly redo "background" tasks, like ReadyBoost - they do not impede performance when they shuffle the disk in the background (like they should've from the start, but they didnt).

 

Vista has way less issues than XP has when released. What do you mean your video drivers? From what I know compagnies lik HP and stuff don't update their drivers on their site.