Windows Vista SP1

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it’s been about time. hopefully what they said about cpu utilization will be true :).

Looking for information on Vista SP1 I listened to Paul Thurrot’s weekly webcast #31 which covered it.
Anyway, he said that he was sure there was a conspiracy at Microsoft to leave out the driver for your printer.
It was funny.

Good Luck!

in two waves. The initial release of SP1 will include 5 languages (English, French, Spanish, German, and Japanese). A Service Pack containing all 36 of the languages (including the original 5) will be released about 3 months later. [IMG] source:Chris Pirillo

It’s supposed to be out by Q1 or ‘08? Man, I was REALLY hoping for a release some time this year. It’ll certainly be a blessing if/when Vista can become as “usable” with today’s software and hardware as XP SP2 is. I guess time will tell…

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I got SP1 via Bittorrent yesterday (Aug 30) and, never seeing any reason to be cautious or smart, I installed it on my computer. Since I am typing this, obviously it works, but there are funny glitches that turn up. Anyway it’s worth it because my hard drive is quiet and peaceful for the first time since I installed Vista seven months ago. Why is it quiet? I suspected from the start that Microsoft was using the early adopters to continue the testing of the OS, and probably had things gummed up with debug code or some other OS-monitoring system that kept the computer hopping around and sucking up CPU cycles like a giant, restless, nervous noodge (or more likely, kludge). I think the proof of this was the constant hardware noise and flashing of the hard drive light, and above all, the occasional ominous BIOS beep that indicated the CPU temperature was exceeding 65 degrees C. When this first happened I assumed my new dual CPU was simply not getting enough cooling, so I installed a monstrous, hell-raising heat-sink and fan with brilliant blue lights that can illuminate the room even with the lights off, and even with this honking, diesel-powered contraption, I still heard the overheat beep. Well now I don’t hear it any more and apparently the CPU is coasting at less than 50% usage, and the hard drive light has not flashed during the whole time I have been typing this. In fact, the silence is almost deafening. What I would like to know is, what the hell was Microsoft doing with my computer before I got SP1? They almost wore the poor thing out.

Hmm, so the defragger is also destined for an upgrade, that’s good. Will it be anywhere as good as Diskeeper? I am running DK Pro on my Vista desktop, and it beats the Vista defragger hands down. Manual defrags are fast, the automatic defrag is a breeze, and I can select specific partitions on which I want autodefrag to run. All said, an excellent program and what Vista’s defrag should aim to become.

t cause problems you are probably wondering what all the fuss is about. But for those of us with problem drivers, this is just not acceptable. Vista has been coming for five years - make the darn drivers for it already. I have alreadyblogged about the SP1 features, as written by Microsoft. My question is, why are these issues being resolved in a service pack? Many of these issues should have been addressed long before Vista was released. You knew this was coming for five years, Microsoft. Why release an

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