Important updates for Windows Vista

gxsaurav · 30-07-2007, 11:57 AM

Source : Microsoft Connect & nvnews

Microsoft has released 2 very important & required updates for Windows Vista for X86 & X64 versions. These updates fixes lots of performance issues & increse compatibility with old updates.

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Originally Posted by Microsoft

938979 Vista Performance and Reliability Pack

This update resolves a number of individual issues which may be affecting some computers running Windows Vista. These issues have been reported by customers using the Error Reporting service, product support, or other means. Installing this update will improve the performance and responsiveness for some scenarios and improves reliability of Windows Vista in a variety of scenarios. Some examples of the improvements contained in this update are:

• Improves performance in resuming back to the desktop from the Photo and Windows Energy screensaver.
• Resolves an issue where some secured web pages using advanced security technologies may not get displayed in Internet Explorer on Windows Vista.
• Resolves an issue where a shared printer may not get installed if the printer is connected to a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 system and User Access Control is disabled on the Vista client.
• 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.
• Resolves a compatibility issue with RAW images created by Canon EOS 1D/1DS Digital SLR Camera which can lead to data loss. This only affects RAW images created by these two specific camera models.
• Resolves an issue where a computer can lose its default Gateway address when resuming from sleep mode.
• Improves the performance when copying or moving entire directories containing large amounts of data or files.
• Improves the performance of Vista’s Memory Manager in specific customer scenarios and prevents some issues which may lead to memory corruption.

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Originally Posted by Microsoft

938194 Vista Compatibility and Reliability Pack

This update resolves a number of individual issues which may be affecting some computers running Windows Vista. These issues have been reported by customers using the Error Reporting service, product support, or other means. Installing this update will improve the reliability and hardware compatibility of Windows Vista in a variety of scenarios. Some examples of the improvements contained in this update are:

• Improved reliability and compatibility of Vista when used with newer graphics cards in several specific scenarios and configurations.
• Improved reliability when working with external displays on a laptop.
• Increased compatibility with many video drivers.
• Improved visual appearance of games with high intensity graphics.
• Improved quality of playback for HD-DVD and Blue-Ray disks on large monitors.
• 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.

These updates will go Public on the next Patch Tuesday. I have them installed & they work fine, however I don't know whether I can provide link to download these or not cos right now they are not public from Microsoft. Oh! & unlike some other OS manufacturers who release a new OS just to release a new File System, this is free update.

Warning : If you install these updates on Windows Vista X64 then all your unsigned drivers will stop working. You will need to press F8 everytime during boot & select to load those unsigned drivers

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Harvik780 · 30-07-2007, 12:13 PM

Nice to see such updates.Thanks.

30-07-2007, 12:39 PM

i think microsoft will issue this tyep of patch rather then sp1

gxsaurav · 30-07-2007, 12:55 PM

Edit: Keyboard works again without drivers after a reboot

iMav · 30-07-2007, 03:15 PM

windows update isnt showing any available updates

edit: found the links ... ya every1 is saying 64bit has problems also they arent published and only available as beta at some windows site ...

gxsaurav · 30-07-2007, 04:31 PM

They are not beta. i downloaded them from Microsoft Connect. They are under "Windows Server 2008" downloads, its just that they are not public yet. Just like the previous file copy patch isn't public yet

$$Gururaj$$ · 30-07-2007, 08:31 PM

yeh i have upgrad the new update, i think it has patched some security fixes. but i recommend u

rakeshishere · 02-08-2007, 09:35 PM

Wonder why such "imp" update havent been officially announced? I also found it in "Windows Server 2008" category before reading this thread

Ankur Gupta · 03-10-2007, 11:05 PM

Well I can see this update in my Windows Update and the Published date is shown as 25th September 2007...

Krazy_About_Technology · 07-10-2007, 04:12 AM

Got both of them just after installing vista. Its been a pleasure using this new OS just by installing a few updates. Not facing any serious performance issue now. Removed XP from system. And know what, on an updated vista system, with a little tweak here and there, 99% of the older programs run smooth.