new performance & reliability updates for vista next week (2nd batch of them!)

bledd · 5 Oct 2007 at 01:14

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/03/Microsoft-updates-Vista-speed-and-stability-again_1.html

will appear as optional windows updates

Slinky1989 · 5 Oct 2007 at 01:22

awesome! \o/ The article doesn't show much (bar start up times and media player) about fixes but progress is progress

marc2003 · 5 Oct 2007 at 02:38

theses fixes have already been out for a few days now. (shamelessly stolen from neowin

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1)

This update improves the compatibility, reliability, and stability of Windows Vista. This update includes the following improvements:
• It extends the battery life for mobile devices.
• It improves the stability of portable computers and of desktop computers that use an uninterruptable power supply (UPS).
• It improves the reliability of Windows Vista when you open the menu of a startup application.
• It improves the stability of Internet Explorer when you open a Web page.
• It improves the stability of wireless network services.
• It shortens the startup time of Windows Vista by using a better timing structure.
• It shortens the recovery time after Windows Vista experiences a period of inactivity.
• It shortens the recovery time when you try to exit the Photos screen saver.
• It improves the stability of Windows PowerShell.
This update also resolves the following issues in Windows Vista:
• A compatibility issue that affects some third-party antivirus software applications.
• A reliability issue that occurs when a Windows Vista-based computer uses certain network driver configurations.

Update for Windows Vista (KB941649):
Download for: 32-bit | 64-bit | More info.

2)

Cumulative update rollup for USB core components in Windows Vista

Issues that are fixed in the update rollup
925528 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925528/) Stop errors occur on a Windows-based computer that has 2GB or more of RAM and is using an NVIDIA nForce USB controller
929734 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929734/) You may experience problems after you resume a Windows Vista-based computer from sleep or from hibernation
930568 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930568/) Error message when you try to put a Windows Vista-based computer to sleep or into hibernation: "STOP 0x000000FE BUGCODE_USB_DRIVER"
929478 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929478/) After you use the Safely Remove Hardware option to remove a built-in optical drive from a portable Windows Vista-based computer, you may be unable to reconnect the drive
930570 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930570/) Error message in the Usbhub.sys process when you wake a Windows Vista-based computer from sleep or from hibernation: "STOP 0x00000044"
928631 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928631/) A USB device may no longer work correctly after Windows Vista resumes from sleep or from hibernation
933433 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933433/) Recording quality is poor when you use a USB microphone on a Windows Vista-based computer that has 4 GB of RAM or more
933442 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933442/) A USB composite device does not work after you disable and then enable the device in Device Manager on a computer that is running Windows Vista
934633 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934633/) When you connect a USB multifunction printer device to a Windows Vista-based computer, a second instance of the printer object is created, and the first instance no longer works
934796 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934796/) Error message on a Windows Vista-based computer that is running a USB composite device: "STOP 0x000000FE"
933824 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933824/) The Safely Remove Hardware feature and the Windows Explorer "Eject" command do not work correctly with an Apple iPod that is connected to a Windows Vista-based computer
935782 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935782/) A USB device takes a long time to resume from "selective suspend" mode on a Windows Vista-based computer that uses UHCI USB controllers
935783 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935783/) When you resume a Windows Vista-based computer from sleep, you may experience unexpected behavior from a USB device

Update for Windows Vista (KB941600):
Download for: 32-bit | 64-bit | More info

3)

This is a reliability update. Install this update to improve the reliability of Windows Media Player 11 for Windows Vista in certain scenarios.

Update for Windows Vista (KB941651)
Download for: 32-bit | 64-bit

skanky · 5 Oct 2007 at 06:18

excellent, grabbing them now.

Slinwagh · 5 Oct 2007 at 10:16

I can't seem to download any of them.

Jimmy1983 · 5 Oct 2007 at 14:16

Whens SP1 out via auto updates?

marc2003 · 5 Oct 2007 at 14:22

Jimmy1983 said:
Whens SP1 out via auto updates?

next year sometime.

Jimmy1983 · 5 Oct 2007 at 14:23

marc2003 said:
next year sometime.

That long, I thought it would be before then.

chaosophy · 5 Oct 2007 at 14:52

Maybe I should have gone for a more sensationalist title?

Valo · 5 Oct 2007 at 20:26

Cheers for those

gareth170 · 5 Oct 2007 at 22:06

theres another one also.. for Media Center for Windows Vista (KB941229)

32bit 64bit

Kde7 · 5 Oct 2007 at 22:33

Hi guys, don't post here often but I thought I'd just warn anyone installing these that my PC wouldn't boot after Vista had configured them, messed up my USB!

Had use a PS/2 adaptor to try start in safe mode but even that didn't start. Then I booted my Vista disk as if I was doing a new install and went to System Repair, it did a system restore which worked, only for Windows to configure the same 'updates' upon reboot.

Finally I used the Vista disk and did the same System Restore but rather than letting it confiure the updates and screw up again, I sucessfully started in safe mode after the system restore and restored to a point further back before it was due to configure anything.

Hope this doesn't happen to anyone else, thank god I fixed it cos I'm at uni and about to go home for the weekend lol.

mrk · 5 Oct 2007 at 23:04

Kde7 said:
Hi guys, don't post here often but I thought I'd just warn anyone installing these that my PC wouldn't boot after Vista had configured them, messed up my USB!

Had use a PS/2 adaptor to try start in safe mode but even that didn't start. Then I booted my Vista disk as if I was doing a new install and went to System Repair, it did a system restore which worked, only for Windows to configure the same 'updates' upon reboot.

Finally I used the Vista disk and did the same System Restore but rather than letting it confiure the updates and screw up again, I sucessfully started in safe mode after the system restore and restored to a point further back before it was due to configure anything.

Hope this doesn't happen to anyone else, thank god I fixed it cos I'm at uni and about to go home for the weekend lol.

is that from the USB update ? or all the updates ?

something daft already!! · 6 Oct 2007 at 01:43

I spent the evening repairing vista after installing.

mrk · 6 Oct 2007 at 01:47

*holds off installing these*

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martin9887 · 6 Oct 2007 at 09:02

I have all installed and working fine here

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Cuchulainn · 6 Oct 2007 at 09:04

They broke my install too - I spent most of the early hours of this morning reinstalling Vista....

Be warned.

skanky · 6 Oct 2007 at 10:09

hmm might make a ghost backup before giving these a go then.

Plebo · 6 Oct 2007 at 10:14

I'm using Vista Home Premium.

I installed the USB update OK (KB941600), did the required reboot.

Then I installed the KB941649 'reliability' update, and rebooted. My PC then hung on the Windows is starting ribbon thingy. Gave it 10 minutes then tried rebooting into last know working configuration and safe mode and neither of those would boot either.

In the end I had to put in the Vista install disk and repair the installation, where it gave me the opportunity to go back to a previous restore point. Its working now, but i've not tried reinstalling KB941649.

If you are going to install KB941649, my advise is to turn on system restore if you got it disabled first!

Slinwagh · 6 Oct 2007 at 11:40

Installed a 3 yesterday, no issues so far!