Significant Improvements on Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC

I'm a Vista user and the thing that everyone loves to hear is that Microsoft comes out Service packs for it's operating system.

Thus, it's a great holly Christmas present from Microsoft to release the RC for Windows Vista (All versions).

Once you have installed it, there are 2 significant views that tells you it has been upgraded to Service Pack 1.


The watermark that resides bottom right of your desktop.


Right Click Computer - > Properties.

Total installation takes around 1.5 hours for my Core 2 Duo 1.66Ghz laptop.

Reliability Improvements

- SP1 addresses issues many of the most common causes of crashes and hangs in Windows Vista, as reported by Windows Error Reporting. These include issues relating to Windows Calendar, Windows Media Player, and a number of drivers included with Windows Vista.
- Improves reliability by preventing data-loss while ejecting NTFS-formatted removable-media.
- Improves reliability of IPSec connections over IPv6 by ensuring by ensuring that all Neighbor Discovery RFC traffic is IPsec exempted.
- Improves certain problem scenarios where a driver goes to sleep with incomplete packet transmissions by ensuring the driver is given enough time to transmit or discard any outstanding packets before going to sleep.
- Improves wireless ad-hoc connection (computer-to-computer wireless connections) success rate
- Improves the success of peer-to-peer connections, such as Windows Meeting Space or Remote Assistance applications, when both PCs are behind symmetric firewalls.
- Improves Windows Vista’s built-in file backup solution to include EFS encrypted files in the backup.
- An improved SRT (Startup Repair Tool), which is part of the Windows Recovery environment (WinRE), can now fix PCs unbootable due to certain missing OS files.
- Users who did not opt-in to the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) will be prompted again to join after installing SP1. The experience will remain the same and the default will continue to be opt-out.

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In conclusion, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC is a no frills update that does significantly boost your PC performance by around 20% as this Service pack focuses a lot on reliability and performance. Why wait? Just download!