Windows Vista Service Pack 1 now available!

JDMurray

You can wait for it to appear in your Windows Update or download and install it now.

Windows Vista Service Pack 1

Find more posts tagged with

SAVE $250 on Your Boot Camp — Use Code "EXAM26"

Exclusively for TechExams members for Infosec Boot Camps starting before April 30, 2026

View Boot Camps

Comments

Tyrant1919

Sweet, something else for me to test on my Vista machine before we roll it out sometime in the future.

After reviewing a hefty list of changes:

http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/005f921e-f706-401e-abb5-eec42ea0a03e1033.mspx?mfr=true

I need to hurry up and put Vista back on my home PC. Had to take it off due to Nvidia errors, but now that I switched to ATI it's time to switch back. SP1 may have even fixed those errors.

blargoe

Vista is definitely less sucky if you use it with SP1.

Kasor

I already installed on one of the lab testing machine. So far,.... I don't see any sufficient improvement..

JDMurray

Kasor wrote:

I already installed on one of the lab testing machine. So far,.... I don't see any sufficient improvement..

Try testing a system before-and-after installing SP1 with a clean install of Vista. It's the only way to determine if there is any actual performance increase on a computer. Your present computer may have performance problems that SP1 can't fix.

Kasor

I have to find another workstation and using the same image, but without the SP3 today.

See what come out fromt he brenchmark test

KGhaleon

So anyone notice significant improvements? I thankfully don't own a Vista machines but I've had my share of experience with them. What about all the compatability issues?

Mishra

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/18/186208

JDMurray

Vista Team Blog: Windows Vista SP1 Released to Windows Update

Why can't I see the Vista SP1 update in Windows Update?

darkuser

ahhh so its really released ....
havent heard anything in the mainstream media ..... odd m$$$

Sepiraph

darkuser wrote:

ahhh so its really released ....
havent heard anything in the mainstream media ..... odd m$$$

I guess you don't read slashdot, it was all the rage there for awhile...

Anyway, I actually do run Vista on my laptop but I'm fairly skeptical of applying the patch (also my computer runs fine for what I do). I'd rather let MS test it out more and wait for the auto-update in a month or so.

taktsoi

anyone try to slipstream Windows Vista SP1?

any successful/unsuccessful story?

darkuser

actually i do .....
but ive been emersed in virtual hell that is PCI compliance for the past year.

actually the problem's not us
we're implementing all the technical controls
its the scientists who cant live with a locking screen saver.

dynamik

Sepiraph wrote:

Anyway, I actually do run Vista on my laptop but I'm fairly skeptical of applying the patch (also my computer runs fine for what I do). I'd rather let MS test it out more and wait for the auto-update in a month or so.

Vista SP1 is really only a collection of updates. If you've been updating along the way, you basically have SP1. There were a few minor additions, but it's nothing like XP SP2. You should obviously test it thoroughly before installing it on critical systems, but I don't think you have any reason to worry about putting it on your personal systems.

JDMurray

dynamik wrote:

Vista SP1 is really only a collection of updates. If you've been updating along the way, you basically have SP1.

The same is true with Windows XP SP3, which is due out on Monday, March 24, 2008. I've been reading about people fearing to install SP3, but if they have all of the latest Windows updates installed they already have 99% of SP3 installed on their Windows XP computers anyway.