Windows Vista SP1 Hands-On Details

babyshiori writes "Users of Microsoft Windows Vista can rejoice in the fact that Microsoft just released a preview of the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate! The build is the lead-up to the actual service pack, which will be made available to even more testers at a later date. 'In our early tests with the beta, we saw some small improvements in boot time on an HP Compaq 8710p Core 2 Duo notebook. Before SP1, the laptop took 1 minute, 51 seconds to boot. After the update, that figure dropped by almost 20 seconds. Microsoft is also touting improvements in "the speed of copying and extracting files," so we tested a few of those scenarios. We noted a slight increase in the time required to copy 562 JPEG images totaling 1.9GB from an SD Card to the hard drive of the aforementioned HP Compaq notebook.'"

Wow

[Anonymous Coward]

Exciting. Really.

Yes, but...

[kwabbles]

will it allow me to do things like run applications and operate a computer now? :)

Re:40 second boot time an improvement?

[kailoran]

Maybe we could even have the ability to write the memory conents to disk before turning the computer off, so when turned on again, it would resume where we've left off. I'd call it "hibernation".

Re:Epic Disaster

[kwabbles]

Hey now. If we can get enough people focusing on just the bolt, and get them all excited about it - well, they'll just forget about the rest of the tanker.

just wondering...

[WwWonka]

Before SP1, the laptop took 1 minute, 51 seconds to boot. After the update, that figure dropped by almost 20 seconds.

...does it also now display the XP logo at startup?

In other news...

[Enleth]

...the new ToiToi portable toilets fature violas at the bottom of the tank, supposedly to cheer up anyone who happens to fall inside.

The question is, does this make any difference?

Service packs:

[Anonymous Coward]

Doing the work to install
the fixes to the OS in the
same way as they always have because the one
thing they've never done
over the decades,
and we know it, is to thoroughly check
over an initial release
again and again to make sure that it's good enough
and therefore we are all
expecting that there will be many
different service packs to fix the
results.

Re:Service packs:

[Tiny Fist]

Dude, your poem doesn't even rhyme.

Not true...

[denzacar]

Being comprised of mostly carbon atoms, if you polish the turd long enough at the right pressure and temperature - it will turn into a diamond.

Superman could do that.
Only I don't think anyone would like shaking hands with him later.

Re:Service packs:

[Ajehals]

Maybe he should post it again and people will get it.

Re:40 second boot time an improvement?

[Professor_UNIX]

I'd call it "hibernation".

Hibernation sounds like something you'd attribute to a bear though. When you wake the bear up from his hibernation prematurely he's going to be pissed and maul anyone around him. I prefer a much nicer term like "safe sleep" which brings to my mind visions of a baby sleeping in a crib peacefully under the watchful protective gaze of its parents.

Re:SP or New OS?

[Professor_UNIX]

I'm surprised they're calling 50MiB a service pack.

The 50 MB download is probably just the download helper that then downloads the other 7 gigs and lets you resume if your dialup connection gets interrupted over the next several weeks.

Vista Supporters' Rebuttals

[PPH]

Should appear shortly. As soon as their systems finish booting.

Re:Yes, but...

[PPH]

In order to proceed, Vista needs to increment the instruction pointer.

[Allow] or [Cancel]

Re:Wow

[postbigbang]

Mod parent up.

When you guys get excited about a pre-release of a service pack, you're in enormous need of fresh air.

Parent wasn't a troll. Parent has healthy sarcasm.... on what must be the most enormous news dead night of the year, or perhaps decade.

Nothing fixes Vista because XP wasn't broken. Lipstick on that pig won't get on your collar. Trust me on this.

Time to Unplug

[HangingChad]

Users of Microsoft Windows Vista can rejoice in the fact that Microsoft just released a preview of the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release

If users of Microsoft Windows rejoice over a stupid service pack, users of Microsoft Vista need to get out more.

Re:40 second boot time an improvement?

[tompaulco]

My TRS-80 CoCo still boots in about 3/4 of a second. The fact that it still boots at all is an achievement in itself.

Re:Yes, but...

[ozmanjusri]

Thanks Steve. Can you get Bill to give us his opinion next?

Re:Wow

[mwnyc]

Hooray!

Windows Vista: The Wow ...starts now!

Windows Vista SP1: Small improvements in boot time on an HP Compaq 8710p Core 2 Duo notebook ...will be made available to even more testers at a later date!

I can hardly sleep.

Re:Wow

[Hal_Porter]

Lipstick on that pig won't get on your collar. Trust me on this.

Speak for yourself.