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Windows Vista Performance & Reliability Updates Available

By John.Obeto on Tue, 08/07/07 - 6:56pm.

Microsoft has released to the general public some Windows Vista™ updates we have been privy to for a couple of weeks.

The following issues are among those resolved by these performance and reliability updates:

  • Improved reliability and compatibility of Vista when used with newer graphics cards in several specific scenarios and configurations.
  • Increased compatibility with many video drivers.
  • Improved reliability when working with external displays on a laptop.
  • Improved reliability for Internet Explorer when some third party toolbars are installed on Vista.
  • Improved Vista reliability in networking configuration scenarios.
  • Improved the reliability of Windows Calendar in Vista.
  • Improved reliability of systems that were upgraded from XP to Vista.
  • Increased compatibility with many printer drivers.
  • Increased reliability and performance of Vista when entering sleep and resuming from sleep.
  • Improves the performance of Vista’s Memory Manager in specific customer scenarios and prevents some issues which may lead to memory corruption.
  • Improves the performance when copying or moving entire directories containing large amounts of data or files.
  • Resolves an issue where a computer can lose its default Gateway address when resuming from sleep mode.
  • Resolves an issue where creating AVI files on Vista may get corrupted.
  • Improves the performance in calculating the ‘estimated time remaining’ when copying/moving large files.
  • Improves performance in bringing up Login Screen after resuming from Hibernate.
  • Resolves an issue where synchronization of offline files to a server can get corrupted.
  • Improves performance in resuming back to the desktop from the Photo and Windows Energy screensaver.

Thanks for listening, Microsoft.

Robert McLaws (& Windows-Now.com) has a linkpage to all available – x86 and x64 – downloads here.

BTW, this is NOT the SP1 upgrade.

Thanks for the heads-up, Robert.

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