Archive for the 'Vista SP1' Category
With SP1, Microsoft plans to ditch the Vista kill switch
Friday, December 21st, 2007The case for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 just got a lot stronger. When SP1 ships sometime in early 2008, it will strip away one of Vista’s most annoying features and remove one of the most persistent objections to Vista’s adoption. Microsoft plans to remove the infamous “kill switch” from Windows Vista when SP1 is [...]
Download Windows Vista SP1 Beta through Windows Update
Monday, October 15th, 2007How to Download Windows Vista SP1 Beta through Windows Update! Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta is available to Beta testers through Windows Update. Experience the WU installation path for Windows Vista SP1 by following 4 simple steps and give us your feedback to improve our quality.
Vista SP1 offers no new features focuses on OS tweaks security
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), just delivered to a group of approximately 12,000 beta testers, offers no dramatic interface changes, nor does it add new features to the operating system. Instead SP1 focuses on improving performance, reliability and application compatibility, and it extends support to emerging hardware such as the exFAT file system that [...]
Inside Windows Vista Service Pack 1
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007After several months of silence, Microsoft last month finally revealed some concrete information about Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), which I translated into my Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Revealed showcase. If you haven’t read that article, please do so now: This preview, which is based off of more recent beta code and an [...]
Vista SP1: Create a recovery disc
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007One of the new administrative tools Windows Vista Service Pack 1 provides is the ability to create a recovery disc. At first, the name might fool you into thinking the type of discs system manufacturers provide to you when you purchase a new computer to restore your computer to a factory state, but this is [...]
Vista Service Pack 1
Monday, October 1st, 2007Our copy of the new Windows Vista Service Pack 1 beta–the x86 version–arrived today, and I’ve just started to put the long-anticipated update through its paces. The beta is version 0.275, as seen below.I tried the beta on four notebooks so far, and experienced varying installation times. According to Microsoft, typical load times for the [...]
First look at Windows vista SP1
Monday, October 1st, 2007Earlier today I downloaded the standalone installer for Windows Vista SP1 build 6001.16659 and installed it on a few systems to see what it was like - and I thought you might like to take a look at it. Don’t expect huge UI changes after installing SP1 - the changes are small and subtle. In [...]
