Microsoft Preps Vista Performance & Reliability Pack

So... is this the patch that makes the OS work?

Published on July 31, 2007 By Zoomba In WinCustomize News

The big news sweeping the tech world yesterday was the discovery of a package of patches released to testers that aims to fix many of the performance and reliability problems that have plagued many Vista users since the OS release in January. While not available through Windows Update yet, details have emerged as to what specifically is being fixed with the patch set, and for the most part it looks like the big winners this time will be gamers and users who push a lot of multimedia on their systems.

Some of my favorite fixes:

Improved File Copy Speeds (And more accurate time estimates)
Improved compatibility with video drivers
Improved reliability of systems that were upgraded from XP to Vista
Improved quality of playback for HD DVD and Blu-ray discs on large monitors

No word yet on when end-users will see these patches rolled out with other monthly updates. But if these patches deliver on even half of what they promise, Microsoft will have made serious gains in addressing user criticisms of their latest OS offering.

Comments

aufisch

on Jul 31, 2007

Sounds interesting;

Anyone knows whether they will fix the "Explorer crashes when copying more than 16'000 files" bug?

vStyler

on Jul 31, 2007

I'm waiting on the un-pervert the interface design patch

PurrBall

on Jul 31, 2007

I've installed the Performance and Reliability packs and the OS is running somewhat better.

MadDeez

on Jul 31, 2007

i installed these patches yesterday and noticed an immediate increase in performeance. when i left the house i shut the machine down. sometime after returning home, i fired up the beast just to be told by a pop-up that my installation of vista was not genuine. well, the only thing i had done prior to that was install those patches. after restoring my machine to a point prior to the installation of the patches, everything is fine again. the moral of this story is "don't install a patch unless it's from Windows Update". anyway, when these patches are officially released, i highly recommend installing them. the increase in performance was very noticeable.

Robert_Snyder

on Jul 31, 2007

Here's hoping they'll be ready by Patch Tuesday. If so, it'll be a happy one for a change!

c242

on Jul 31, 2007

Installed the without problems. Seem to work good.

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