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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"Improved reliability"
I hope you had a macro set up to insert the phrase "improved reliability" into that post, John. If not, then you must surely be recuperating from RSI by now.
Why the need for all this "improved reliability" though? Maybe because it simply wasn't reliable in the first place?
Cheers,
- Mike