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Vista Service Pack 1

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🙄 Not until next year.

Apparently XP SP3 will follow that.

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta Overview (MS Whitepaper, pdf)

Ed Bott

Mary Jo Foley

Paul Thurrott

While Microsoft’s continued requests for businesses to not wait for SP1 before deploying Windows Vista may seem self-serving, this week’s revelations about the feature set of the service pack suggest that this advice is sound. Windows Vista SP1 looks like a solid and necessary update, but it will not dramatically impact the end user at all. If you’re a Windows enthusiast, Vista SP1 is more a curiosity than something to get excited about. It will not include anything interesting or compelling, in an end user sense, such as a new Media Center version. (Which is also overdue, incidentally.) Hopefully, this will end the speculation. I only wish Microsoft had been this upfront about SP1 months ago. It’s been a long time coming.

Vista Network Tweaks

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I’ve been running some tests on Vista networking tweaks and I would appreciate any input you might have, especially in the testing department. Below are the tweaks and test scenarios. I will report my impressions in a few days so as not to influence any would-be testers. If you provide feedback please include what type of connection (cable, dsl, etc.) you have, what type of network card (10/100, giga, etc.) and what type of downloading you do (standard from browser, torrent, download manager, etc). [Read more…] about Vista Network Tweaks

Windows Experience Index Score Is A Joke

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I keep seeing posts around the net asking about, comparing, and actually shopping for hardware to increase your WEI score. I know most of my fellow geeks know this is just a gimmick and nod to hardware vendors on the part of MS but some folks just don’t seem to get it. You want to increase your score? Here ya go (click thumbnail for a larger pic):


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Your WEI score is here: C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore , edit it as you like 😉

ReadyBoost: Does it Make a Difference?

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PCstats takes a look at Vista’s ReadyBoost feature. Decent article. Worth a read.

…Even with 512MB of system memory, ReadyBoost only increases performance in the benchmarks by a few percentage points…What the tests don’t show, is that applications within Windows were clearly quicker in loading…For memory configurations 1GB or higher, ReadyBoost does not improve system performance, at least not enough for you to notice it…

Microsoft Windows Vista & ReadyBoost: Does it Make a Difference?