Comments on: Thoughts on Windows Vista SP1

By: Hemanth

Hemanth — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:42:39 +0000

Well, I just upgraded to Vista SP1. At the moment there is not much of s difference in the performance, but hey at least it’s not crashing!

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Windows Vista Service Pack 1 — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:10:24 +0000

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Thoughts on Windows Vista SP1 at The NeoSmart Files — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:20:42 +0000

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By: Computer Guru

Computer Guru — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:10:24 +0000

Thanks Tim!

God knows I’ve scoured the internet without any success, looking for this!

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:13:26 +0000

I don’t know the registry value, but you can enable separate explorer tasks via checking “Launch folder windows in a separate process” in the folder view options.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:30:39 +0000

Something tells me nobody’s running Vista with 256MBs of RAM. I’ve got 2GBs, anyways, so I doubt I would notice a difference…

I’ll check in my XP Hacking book later.

By: Computer Guru

Computer Guru — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:03:27 +0000

Originally it’s because it wasn’t recommended for anyone with less than 256MB of memory

Since then? I don’t know. But when I applied it to Vista RTM back in 2006, it became ten-times as stable, and didn’t take much more memory than it usually did (though each process now runs in its own memory space).

For the life of me, I cannot find this hack anywhere…. I had stumbled across it in an old XP registry tweaking guide, but can’t find it again. Anyone?

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:02:21 +0000

That sounds like something that should be the default… I actually wonder why it suddenly crashes like that, it seems odd.

By: Computer Guru

Computer Guru — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:45:09 +0000

I don’t know if it does/will, but there is a really handy hack that has each “instance” of explorer.exe run in its own memeory space.

I can’t remember the registry change needed to activite this – when I do I’ll post back.

Basically, when a window in explorer.exe crashes, only that window goes down. Your desktop, other open explorer windows, and everthing else keeps chugging merrily along.

If anyone reading this has any idea what registry hack I’m talking about, please do share!

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:53:44 +0000

Maybe SP1 will fix the problem I have occasionally where I open up my User folder and explorer.exe crashes and has to restart…

By: Jan Viderén » Windows Vista Service Pack 1

Jan Viderén » Windows Vista Service Pack 1 — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:23:53 +0000

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