ID's place to speak » Have You Updated to Vista SP1?

Published on March 24, 2008 By Island Dog In Personal Computing

Microsoft released SP1 for Windows Vista this past week and the reviews seem to be mixed. Some reviewers say SP1 improves various system performance tests, and others say it does the opposite. I installed Vista SP1 on my main desktop PC last week, and the installation process was flawless. As far as any "real world" performance issues, I haven't noticed anything either way. On my system, I have had no noticeable performance gains or slowdowns as others have reported.

I haven't installed SP1 as of yet on my HP laptop, as the SP1 betas I have used kept constantly BSOD'ing my machine. I was never able to narrow down the culprit, but I am a bit wary about installing it again on this computer. I might fire up Windows Update tomorrow morning and give it another go, so we will see how that works out then.

Otherwise, my question to the community is have you, Vista users, updated to SP1 yet?

Comments (Page 1)

Bebi Bulma

on Mar 24, 2008

ID, aren't you using the Conexant 4.31 audio drivers on the HP laptop? The MS site says it won't work with anything below 4.32, and yet those don't even seem to exist that I could find. Trying to update the drivers through device management says it's up to date, and HP's site says I'm up to date as well.

krunchnik

on Mar 24, 2008

I have updated both my Gateway laptop and Dell desktop and have had no adverse reactions,I also have noticed my Dell seems to run a little faster with less USB glitches,which I had a few of those.I have a sigmatel audio card that they say is a SP1 driver problem,I reinstalled the driver after SP1 update and have not has a problem.So well see.

PurrBall

on Mar 24, 2008

Much faster, the speed difference here is like going from XP back to 2k.

liquidguru

on Mar 24, 2008

I've been running SP1 for nearly a month now on my Dell laptop. Haven't had any problems. Seems a little quicker in all areas and there is definitely a big improvement with copying or moving files, whether on a local disk or to a network disk.

So far the experience has been all positive. Though, apart from the file copying/moving slowness, I didn't have a problem with Vista before SP1

CarGuy1

on Mar 24, 2008

I loaded it on my desktop and have not noticed any difference in performance.

Not that I expected to since I had no complaints about performance to begin with; the systems was no slouch...5.8 Windows Experience score before and after.

CarGuy1

on Mar 24, 2008

I loaded it on my desktop and have not noticed any difference in performance.
Not that I expected to since I had no complaints about performance to begin with; the systems is no slouch...5.8 Windows Experience score before and after.

Zubaz

on Mar 24, 2008

Waiting for a DesktopX fix.

Darken

on Mar 24, 2008

Otherwise, my question to the community is have you, Vista users, updated to SP1 yet?

Yes, installed on 2 computers, all works fine without problem. No real difference before and after the installation of this SP1 on these computers except this new "error log" located on Event viewer (known issue):

Unable to initialize the security package Kerberos for server side authentication. The data field contains the error number.

kona0197

on Mar 25, 2008

I see no performance gains either.

windoe

on Mar 25, 2008

Installed yesterday evening on my laptop. Not really tested but seems to make no difference. May be less time to log on/off...

MindlessChaos

on Mar 25, 2008

So far I have updated 2 machines this week and have yet to do a third. I have been in the process of moving a lot of files around as well this week and on my girlfriends main machine which is a 3.2p4 with 1gig of ram I noticed when I transferring a large number at a time that it immediately started to transfer without spending 10 minutes calculating the move which I had problems with before. Also I am not sure its related as I don't use that particular pc often is that there is a delay when clicking an icon before I hear the drive kick in now. never noticed that before. Yet on my 1.8 Sempron with 512 laptop, not much change either way but its not very well tested. I feel very happy with it so far though I am a Vista fan and honestly haven't a complaint about it yet.

starkers

on Mar 25, 2008

Installed SP1 a few days ago and have had positive results with performance, file copying/moving and load/shutdown times. No more of that 'calculating time' thing... not that it was particularly sluggish beforehand, but now it's quickly into copying/moving files, and that's a bonus for me because it means backups are that bit faster.

Haven't noticed any stability improvements... but then I never had instability issues before SP1

So am I happy with Vista SP1? YUP, you betcha.

Island Dog

on Mar 25, 2008

D, aren't you using the Conexant 4.31 audio drivers on the HP laptop? The MS site says it won't work with anything below 4.32, and yet those don't even seem to exist that I could find. Trying to update the drivers through device management says it's up to date, and HP's site says I'm up to date as well.

Good find Bebi. I got the "latest" Conexant drivers through Windows Update a week or so ago, and they show as 4.36. I guess I can try it then.

Bebi Bulma

on Mar 25, 2008

How weird, I just tried it the other day and it said I was up to date with my 4.31 drivers, bah.

CharlesCS

on Mar 25, 2008

I did the update about a week ago. I did notice the PC seems a bit more responsive. It did, however, take a while to install. I have an HP laptop.

So far so good. However I noticed my wife's laptop has not been updated to SP1 but does not show on Windows update as available to DL and install. Not sure why. I don't want to manually DL it and install it, I have never had good outcomes of manually installing a SP. I would normally slipstream it onto the CD.

The only problem I had was I could not get to any websites although I had Internet and was able to play my online games. I found out the update had an issue with my static IP setting so I disabled it. I will have to reset it but I'll do that some other time, its not a desperate necessity.

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