Microsoft Releases Compatibility & Reliability Packs for Vista

Does this mean the OS will work now?

Published on August 8, 2007 By Zoomba In WinCustomize News

While Service Pack 1 looms somewhere in the far-off distance, Microsoft is keeping busy with patches and fixes for Windows Vista. Today, they officially announced the availability of what many consider to be the first stages of what will eventually be SP1; the "performance and reliability" and "compatibility and reliability" patches. They currently don't show up as an option in Windows Update and have to be downloaded manually, but that is likely to change come the next Patch Tuesday, August 14th.

Here are a few of the major fixes introduced by these patches:

Explorer file transfer (copy/move) speed improved.
Improves memory management performance.
Offline file synchronization fixed.
Numerous game hardware-related incompatibilities corrected.

Each patch may be downloaded separately from the Microsoft support site, but requires that you validate your installation of Vista before receiving the file. While these are no longer beta patches, you should probably keep an eye to your favorite tech forums to see how others are getting along with the fixes before applying them yourself.

Download: Performance & Reliability (KB938979)
Download: Compatibility & Reliability (KB938194)

Comments (Page 2)

on Aug 10, 2007

Still gettting those "display driver has stopped responding" messeges!!!!

PhrozenMenace

on Aug 10, 2007

the perfomance one works but that compatibility one sucks..my media players..winamp..windows media, doesn't recognize files from my external

voyager2007

on Aug 11, 2007

Screwed up my internet connection. I could not connect or anything so i had to do a system restore.

starkers

on Aug 11, 2007

Dunno if the patches were the cause or not, but after installing them the dialog in the library, rip and burn pages, etc, wasn't showing in Windows Media Player. There may be another cause, but I un-installed the patches and the dialog returned....shall reinstall the patches later and will report back on the result

I reinstalled the Compatibility & Reliability patch (KB938194) and again lost the text in all Windows Media Player windows. I opened several other apps but it seems only to affect WMP. Furthermore, uninstalling the patch itself did not restore the text, even after I ran Ccleaner....a complete system restore was necessary before WMP was returned to normal.

Another strange thing, even though I installed the Performance patch previously, it would not install this time....after doing the update search it returned a "not compatible with your system" message.

on Aug 21, 2007

I installed those two, and it kinda helped. It used to crash each time I opened file explorer due to domain share issues. Now? Well it pauses for good 10 seconds or more, but in least it won't crash.

File copy is a little better. 1 MB file in raid-5 system takes 2 seconds as opposed to full 15 seconds before.

aufisch

on Aug 21, 2007

I am not sure which one of these updates was the culprit, but Vista64 BSOD'd twice on me since then. And that was the first and only two times it ever did that to me. I will most likely have to uninstall one or both of them...

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