*** VISTA SP1 (now with proper Microsoft.com download links!!!) ***

[Fire Wizard]

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Thank you very much NathanE.

 

[bledd]

whack it in the first page and sticky it mate

 

[MadMacs]

TBH Think it needs a new thread.

 

[humax]

Methinks this is just a cunning plan. so Nathan can sell us all bigger screens

 

[humax]

So to all the guys that have downloaded this pack. what do you think of it. is vista any faster

 

[NathanE]

Hah I resized it now. But only after seeing how hooge it is on a non-24" screen

 

[MadMacs]

So to all the guys that have downloaded this pack. what do you think of it. is vista any faster

Noooo

Think you will only notice a big difference if you were not up to date before installation, But otherwise not noticible

 

[NathanE]

So to all the guys that have downloaded this pack. what do you think of it. is vista any faster

Quite a bit faster - but it takes a week or two for you to realise because it has to rebuild all your Superfetch cache. Superfetch is much improved and no longer noticably "chuggs" the hard drive.

 

[Kainz]

Too early to tell atm. Start menu, control panel all pop up a lot quicker but that's all I see atm.

 

[Inazuma]

I copied a 7gb folder before the update and the speed was fluctuating between 9mb/s and 12mb/s. After the update it has become a little more consistant at 9-10mb/s. I don't really know how long it actually took each time though.

Oh, and Crysis still lags

Tbh, my computer is quite high-end, so I'm not sure I'll really notice much of a difference (menus already used to pop up instantly).

 

[Lysander]

Installation failed. Now it's trying to download the whole thing again. Sod that.

 

[Greenlizard0]

Downloading now with Freedownload manager at average speed - cheers!

 

[Kainz]

Just installed SP1 on my XPS1530 without issues. The download size was 69.6mb this time.

 

[sunlitsix]

So to all the guys that have downloaded this pack. what do you think of it. is vista any faster

for me it seems a lot 'snappier', everything loads faster
should be even better when i get my 2Gb of RAM back

 

[andymac]

Only change I have found so far in Memory I have gone from 4096MB to 4.00GB

 

[Kainz]

Only change I have found so far in Memory I have gone from 4096MB to 4.00GB

SP1 has stoled your rams!

 

[NorthstaNder]

I'm on 32bit Home Premium and SP1 has just become available on auto update. My download is 66mb, but I expect I'll download the full SP at some point to store on a CD for the future.

 

[EDDS]

Only change I have found so far in Memory I have gone from 4096MB to 4.00GB

oh yeah its done the same to me.

 

[PinkPig]

oh yeah its done the same to me.

It doesn't take much to get people worried around here does it? SP1 has just tidied up the way it displays the amount of memory slightly, nothing's actually changed.

 

[NathanE]

SP1 changes the way it reports memory so that x32 users with 4GB don't lodge so many support calls.