Just a couple of personal comments on Vista SP1.
The Upgrade took about 1-1/2 hours, but installed without a hitch.
The first obvious change was performance on several levels. One of the
things that has always bothered me about Vista is the "wake" time for a
couple of reasons. When waking the computer, sometimes it could take up to a
minute for the Welcome screen to appear in order to log on. The second issue
was that wireless network service would have to re-connect and it took
another 30 seconds. Both of these issues were addressed with SP1, at least
in my case. Now we're back to about a 6 second time from "wake" to "work".
This was a major improvement.
The other performance improvement was in the file copy speed (network to
local). What a difference. I use Microsoft Access constantly and there is
no question in my mind, that performance seems to have improved here when
accessing tables on a network drive.
Overall performance seems to be better for me as well. Although most of my
work seems to be LAN related and this improvement was expected.
I guess that time will tell what else SP1 will bring, but so far, it looks
great. I have installed many Service Packs and updates for most OS products,
but this one by far has yielded the most noticable improvements.
Hats off to the development team for this Service Pack.
I would be interested to hear what others are experiencing with this update.
Jim