{"id":470,"date":"2007-08-13T09:34:21","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T09:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/2007\/thoughts-on-windows-vista-sp1\/"},"modified":"2013-08-26T18:17:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:17:02","slug":"thoughts-on-windows-vista-sp1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/thoughts-on-windows-vista-sp1\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Windows Vista SP1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/windows-vista-sp1-and-windows-xp-sp3-betas-leaked-a-bad-week-for-microsoft\/\" rel=\"follow\">previously covered<\/a>, a pre-beta build of Windows Vista SP1 has been leaked to the internet recently, and we&#8217;ve been busy checking it out. You&#8217;ll be glad to hear that, so far, we like what we see.\n<\/p>\n<p>Rather than mucking through paragraphs of text and observations, here are some quick and to-the-point tidbits about what seems to have been improved so far:\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Network browsing. When joining a domain, locating the AD server takes less than a second in SP1, and joining another 2 or so. In Vista RTM, locating the AD would take upwards of 10-20 seconds, and joining would also take just as long. Browsing network shares and NAS devices is definitely faster. <\/li>\n<li>Setup is a bit slower &#8211; but that&#8217;s probably because this build doesn&#8217;t have the finishing touches and optimizations that were applied to Vista RTM with regards to compression and building. <\/li>\n<li>The same applies to the file size: 3.06GB for SP1 x86 edition, verses the original 2.49GB for RTM &#8211; we expect it to go back down a bit, maybe around 2.8GB in the final SP1 release. <\/li>\n<li>Performance of filesystem-intensive activities such as copying, moving, and deleting files is greatly increased &#8211; probably due to the reliability &amp; performance patches Microsoft released last week on Windows Update. <\/li>\n<li>General increased responsiveness in Internet Explorer 7. On older PCs, Internet Explorer&#8217;s user-interface related performance &#8211; especially with regards to opening and closing new tabs and links &#8211; was iffy at best, prone to hang-ups and insane redraw times. Seems to be improved, but it&#8217;s too early to tell for sure, especially since with Windows Vista RTM IE7 <del>seemed to get<\/del> became slower by the day. <\/li>\n<li>Definitely faster explorer.exe response times <strike>for the start menu<\/strike> (nope, still slow!) and My Computer, as well as browsing of large files and directories. <\/li>\n<li>Updated signatures for device detection: now correctly identifies certain out-dated devices as incompatible&nbsp;&#8211; especially some of the older sound cards. <\/li>\n<li>Faster loading and switching between dialogs and system settings. <\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/windows-forces-you-to-use-uac-to-add-a-printer\/\" rel=\"follow\">UAC Networked Printer Bug<\/a> is gone! <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><\/strong>&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Conclusion&#8230;<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>In our brief and subjective testing of Windows Vista SP1, we&#8217;ve found this pre-release Windows Vista SP1 Beta to be quite an improvement over the original (and, objectively speaking,&nbsp;very bad) RTM release. It&#8217;s <em>way<\/em> too early to actually make any judgements here, but we feel comfortable saying that SP1 just might be one hell of a good service pack when it comes out.\n<\/p>\n<p>While some other reviews (well-written and otherwise) around the net have simply said that Vista SP1 &#8220;flies,&#8221; we&#8217;d stop short of making such an observation; being fully aware of the placebo effect a new build can create, and the danger of believing what you wish to be true. But suffice to say that there most certainly is a dramatic improvement in the performance of certain parts of the operating system that, overall, &nbsp;undoubtedly contribute to a more positive end-user experience.\n<\/p>\n<p>During the Vista Beta, by the RC2 milestone we were panicking about the sorry state of Vista and hoping against hope that RTM wouldn&#8217;t be as bad; today, we&#8217;re really happy to report that this latest build fills us with hope and we&#8217;re looking forward to seeing more improvements and bug-fixes as the official beta program unfolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve previously covered, a pre-beta build of Windows Vista SP1 has been leaked to the internet recently, and we&#8217;ve been busy checking it out. You&#8217;ll be glad to hear that, so far, we like what we see. Rather than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/thoughts-on-windows-vista-sp1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,106,513,901,53,510,4],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft","tag-operating-systems","tag-service-pack","tag-software","tag-vista","tag-vista-sp1","tag-windows"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xDa-7A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2419,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/2419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}