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Inside CNET Labs: Windows Vista SP1 performance | |
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| Time: 01:00 EST/06:00 GMT | News Source: WinBeta | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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The long-awaited Service Pack 1 update for Windows Vista brings with it a number of significant bug fixes and other improvements. Microsoft says that with it you will also see a number of noticeable performance improvements as well. In our initial round of testing, we saw a mixed bag of results: we saw a few notable performance improvements under some conditions as well as significant performance degradations in others. For the most part, however, we saw little difference in performance between Vista and the Vista SP1 update. | ||
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| #1 By 27999 (203.142.181.4) at 2/14/2008 6:34:01 AM |
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So SP1 installed itself..successfully it said...on my computer which was working great before that. Now, every time I log on, it tells me to wait about 3 min before I can log on. Then I get the error message that Window could not connect to the System Event Notification Service. Then I can't even get into Windows update...I get a white window spinning its wheels hung up. When I kill the process, all the icons on my tray get wiped out and don't come back.
So this is the great SP1 huh???? I'm uninstalling the whole f...ing works! |
| #2 By 82766 (202.154.80.82) at 2/14/2008 4:46:02 PM |
| Sounds to me like you've got other problems there, that need to be sorted out before you install SP1! I just searched the official beta 'bug list' fo SP1 and no one ever reported anything like that!!! |
| #3 By 60455 (68.186.182.236) at 2/14/2008 5:01:27 PM |
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Went smooth as silk on all test systems we exposed SP1 to. We used the full NW x86 EXE package now available on MSDN (for subscribers).
Haven't seen any big increases in performance other than in Internet Explorer 7 in PM. While it was fine for us before, under SP1 it feels like an entirely new browser. Sites that previously seemed to struggle, have flown in under SP1. Now... fogging on all the prerequisite updates (up to 17 updates this week with a few being SP1 pre-reqs) was tiresome and may frustrate some home users and over-taxed small network administrators. ( so many updates were necessary, because this group of systems were all running SP1 RC and once that was removed, additional updates from previous patch cycles were then necessary ). I personally tested five machines ranging from a four a year old laptop, a six year old P4, a Pent D, and two Core 2's, and all installed without error. Each was fully patched and running very well to begin with, and each is running well post SP1 install. The bump in IE 7 performance was most pronounced on the oldest PC updated (the P4 with 1 GB RAM). On it, IE 7 felt very nice and in ways I did not expect. We'll test a great deal more, of course, but so far, Vista SP1 installed well, and produced no errors in either the OS, or installed applications. This post was edited by tritium on Thursday, February 14, 2008 at 17:05. |
| #4 By 8556 (12.210.39.82) at 2/15/2008 2:16:57 PM |
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Senor: If you did not use the Windows Update technique, you should try it as it makes sure all the needed system changes are in place before showing SP1 as a download.
Some hard drives may create errors during the offline update process. Or, data errors could already exist that were not detected. In that case you will need access to another Vista or XP PC. Open you case, hook up the hard drive to a controller on the other PC. Boot the other PC and run a complete chkdsk on the Vista partition that is acting up. This should find the drive errors and correct them. Image the hard drive after the fix and try again. Defrag the drive and clean out temp and index files with ccleaner or a similar program and then reboot before applying SP1. This post was edited by bobsireno on Friday, February 15, 2008 at 14:38. |
| #5 By 27999 (203.142.175.36) at 2/15/2008 6:19:10 PM |
| Problem solved. It turns out that, on reboot, it wasn't configuring the updates. But when I pulled out the internet connection on reboot, it then configured all the updates and everything is now working fine. Nowhere did I read that you should disconnect from the net when you reboot after downloading, so that it can configure the updates. With a connection, it just refused to configure them. Good point to know if anyone else has this problem. |
| #6 By 3746 (72.12.161.38) at 2/16/2008 12:35:48 PM |
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You shouldn't have to disconnect your internet connection. Sounds like you have other issues. I have loaded the SP on multiple machines probably 10-15 times since the betas and never seen an issue like you describe. |
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